Change Is Easy
Change is easy, right? Ok, you go first! I love that line because, as we all know, we always feel like it’s the other person who needs to change first. You don’t trust that they will change, too, if you go first, so you want them to go first so you can j̶u̶d̶g̶e̶ I...
With All Due Respect To NIKE
Are you running from something? Or towards something? Too often we’re running away, trying to escape — but our problems keep following us! Like that person who goes from one bad relationship to another with no loss of emotion, or those that seem to have terrible job...
Adding a Child Won’t Fix It
Have you ever heard one of those heartbreaking stories where a couple struggling with their relationship suddenly decides to have children — thinking it will bring them closer together? How often does that work out well? Yeah — it’s a terrible strategy that virtually...
Would You Be Crazy To Say ‘No?’
A client of mine has been offered a position with a company that would nearly triple his already six figure income. And on the surface, who wouldn’t want that? It’s a LOT of money. The problem is, he’d have to move to a city he doesn’t want to live in, doing work...
Tools Don’t Build Masterpieces, People Do… With Tools
I seem to be on a CVI kick, so let’s go back to my comment a couple weeks ago about the CVI being a tool. I recently asked a group what they thought of the CVI. The first person to respond said, “I think it’s crap, a waste of our time.” “Wholesale & completely?”...
A Core Values Leadership Case Study
Let’s dive into the CVI a little bit more. Here’s a case study in the CVI: Take a leader who’s a Merchant/Builder, which simply means their highest value is relationship and making deep, honest connections with people; and their secondary value is the confidence that...
The Questions Are SO Often Better Than The Answers
We talked about the posture of learning last week, and some of the conversations I have been having around that theme is about asking a better question, and how one does that in real time. Let me go back to my favorite assessment tool, the CVI, for some insights....
It’s the Spiral Of Life — Not The Circle
One step forward, two steps back. Isn’t that what life feels like too often? I make a little progress — and then life pulls me right back. I think I’m doing well, then bam! I make a mistake that undermines my progress — or worse, my confidence. It’s easy to think...
A Posture Of Learning
Often with leadership, we feel like we need to have all the answers. I am continually watching leaders shoot from the hip, often inaccurately, because they think they are supposed to know something as the leader — and if they don’t know the answer immediately off the...
Why Protect The Porsche?
My oldest is driving now, which I still can’t figure out, because she was just four years old, like, yesterday! Recently she went to the grocery store for us (well, that’s a perk, I suppose). She did her shopping, went back to the car, and while waiting for traffic to...
