Can your team see the thread of your leadership at work? At a human level, people want to see, need to see, the connection between decisions being made and the reasons for those decisions.  Without that, they can feel like automatons simply complying with instructions...

I once worked with a team that was — and there’s no gentle way to put this — highly dysfunctional. Most of the team was unhappy and in conflict with the manager, who couldn’t really see the problem. When I asked the manager about the problems the team had listed, he...

Paradox: a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true. - (Dictionary v2.3.0) We have trouble with paradoxes, don’t we? Is seems to me that so many people much prefer...

… Leadership. To put it simply, if you are not willing to be wrong, not willing to be vulnerable, you’re not really leading. Doing only that which you know works from the past, or leading only those who agree with you, is not leading. To lead is to be vulnerable, to...

I’m not walking around with just my left or my right side -- or just my front without my back. So I don't believe our spouse 'completes' us. I've never believed that. We are, each of us, whole, complete people, so another person 'completing' us just doesn't make sense...

Some things just happen by accident. We discover an amazing recipe, a back way for our commute to work, or meet a new friend. They can't be planned, and when they happen, it feels like magic! Most people seem to think that work culture is one of those happy accidents....

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” - George Carlin Why do we so often treat life like a zero-sum game... …that any win you get is a loss for me? If you're right, I must be wrong,...

Just because it’s obvious to you, doesn’t mean it’s obvious to them. This could be true professionally, personally or otherwise (is there an otherwise?). What seems so obvious from the outside can be invisible from the inside. Here’s an example. Remember the course I...

When I first heard about coaching, my impression of it (as I mentioned last week) was that it was a bit of an inbred profession — coaches coaching coaches and people who wanted to be coaches.  I struggled to find people who were effectively doing it in the real world...