Leadership Blog

The old saying is that you hire for competence and fire for character. But what if that’s misguided?

Let’s start here: Are you overjoyed when you don’t need to say anything in a meeting?

Each situation at work is different inherently, but … why is it that some leaders seem to have influence and persuade others?

With all the books, speeches, webinars, training, and more, leadership is a $44B industry globally.

The hard thing about creating a collaborative culture is that one bad seed will ruin the crop.

There’s a really amusing trick I’ve discovered.

Ever since I began executive coaching I’ve asked my clients to choose a theme for the coming year. I’m going to ask you to do the same.

Character is one of those all-time fluffier business words: we all know it’s important, and we all have an idea what it looks like.

The status of respect in the workplace in most published surveys isn’t too rosy a picture.

Consider this: an average human being has 60,000 thoughts in a day.

When I coach leaders, one of the common questions they ask me is “How can I move my career forward and get more influence?"

Not everybody likes Tom Cruise.

At the heart of any thriving relationship is the ability to communicate with one another.

I’ve learned a lot from the leaders I coach. I’ve summarized my key learnings into 8 principles.

If I told you there was a way to be a better leader AND be someone who works less but gets more done, you’d want to know more, right?

Leadership #presence matters. It's called many different things: magnetism, charisma, commanding the room, etc.

On the paperback side of the book publishing industry, more than four titles per day are released with ‘leadership’ in them.

Here’s a (not-so) fun fact about conventional management that you might not be aware of.

Developing self-worth is hard for many of us.

The best leaders invest in their people. They don't gab at their team as preachers – they guide them as teachers.