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When you were a kid, did you hear the phrase “Children should be seen and not heard?” That seemed to be one of my family’s favorites! My parents were older when I was born, and I was my mother’s only [...]

One of my favorite questions to ask is “for what purpose?”  There are so many good ideas out in the world!  As a leader, whenever a member of my staff would come to me with an idea, I would listen [...]

Are you busy all the time?  If so, are you productive?  Americans are great at keeping busy, but we don’t necessarily move toward our goals.  Why is that?  We’ve been conditioned to value action of any kind over productivity.  It’s [...]

If you’ve ever read a book on leadership, it probably provided you with a checklist of things to do to be successful.  Most leadership experts present you with a system, and if you follow their system, they tell you that [...]

How courageous are you in your conversations?  Are you a straight shooter, who tells it like it is?  Or do you default to telling people what they want to hear?  This is a difficult question to answer.  We’d all like [...]

What keeps you from thinking big? Chances are, you had an audacious dream when you were younger, and a big idea of what your life was supposed to be like. If you’re like most people, you slowly downgraded that dream [...]

How well do you handle change?  You’ve probably gotten a glimpse of the answer in the past few weeks, as COVID 19 and the governmental response to it have forced the U.S. workforce into unprecedented transitions, whether it is losing [...]

At the beginning of 2020, who would have predicted that we’d become an almost completely remote workforce in the next 90 days?  If you’re like me, one of the things you like most about going to the office is the [...]

“First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is...fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 4, 1933

              Leadership is generally considered to be about other people, right?  After all, how can you be a leader if there’s no one there to follow?  Consequently, most philosophies of leadership highlight how we show up in relationship to [...]