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Are you seeking to develop new leadership skills to uplift your people and identify steps toward a faster, smarter, and happier enterprise? I suggest asking yourself these questions:   What are we doing to create (or maintain) a collective vision? Do our people feel bigger and better after conversations with our leaders? How effective are […]

Recently I had the opportunity to speak to a group of emerging leaders at the American Society of Naval Engineers Technology, Systems, and Ships Conference. I enjoyed talking with them and experiencing their vibrant energy.  During our time together, one message I shared with them was this:   People who advance to the leading edge […]

Leadership involves not just the decision to change but, more important, a commitment to evolve. It’s a state of being aware, awake, and alert. It’s about vigilance. Evolution is not random change. It is change with a specific trajectory in a particular direction. Events and opportunities appear as the direction unfolds. Evolution creates order.   […]

Effective leaders strive to better understand everybody’s work experience and their individual goals. Effective leaders also value each person’s talent and experience and what he or she has to offer as a full participant in the company’s mission, goals, and success. With this in mind, we use the following questions to guide regular discussions at […]

One of the most important decisions we make is choosing how we handle stress. We are surrounded by stress. In fact, we’re struggling to survive in the midst of a stress epidemic. The same is true for our colleagues. Stress is ubiquitous.   Lack of role clarity, maddening traffic, multitasking, managing budgets, rising costs, a […]

Research and evidence demonstrate the many benefits of reading, especially for those who lead others. According to Harvard Business Review:   “Evidence suggests reading can improve intelligence and lead to innovation and insight. Some studies have shown, for example, that reading makes you smarter through “a larger vocabulary and more world knowledge in addition to […]

What priorities should I tackle first? How can my teams work more cooperatively together?  These are just some of the questions leaders ask as they try to wrap their arms around the many moving pieces of their business and steer in the right direction.  I have met many leaders who want to improve customer satisfaction […]

We’ve covered imagining what others don’t and managing stress and time as foundational cornerstones of leadership. Another important element of transformational leadership is to inspire everyone to get involved. Start encouraging folks to achieve more than what’s thought possible by setting high and realistic standards and through ongoing discussions to keep those standards on everyone’s […]

In my last post we discussed imagining what others don’t as a  foundational cornerstone of leadership. Another important cornerstone is managing stress and time.   Despite difficult pressures, effective leaders remain focused, clear, and calm, which builds the confidence of everyone around them. Due to the natural “fight or flight” response, certain instincts take over […]

Leaders who achieve meaningful success do three things: Imagine what others don’t Manage stress, time, and data Inspire and encourage others   These three foundational cornerstones can help you to energize your workforce and to thrive as a leader. Another way to think about these cornerstones is that they are preliminary suppositions to effective leadership. […]