Best of Leadership Caffeine™-How to Deal with Positive Praise

It’s easy to start believing the praise you hear in the hallways about your leadership approach. Easy and dangerous. I’ve always been leery of the unfounded and saccharine-sweet praise that is bestowed upon leaders. While you may call me cynical, I prefer to think of myself as pragmatic. Here are 5 ideas for delicately and appropriately coping with positive praise:

By |2016-10-22T17:11:27-05:00August 6th, 2012|Leadership, Leadership Caffeine|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: Learning to Ask for Help

I’ve not met a person yet that doesn’t need help from time to time, and this goes double for anyone in a leadership role. Leadership is frequently lonely and those that take their role seriously truly fret over decisions surrounded by ambiguity. The pressure to “figure it out” is tremendous, partially imposed by our fast moving and politically charged working environments, and partially imposed by our own misguided sense that to show that we need help is to show weakness. Here are seven ideas for properly and professionally asking for help.

By |2016-10-22T17:11:46-05:00November 1st, 2010|Career, Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine|11 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™-Create Success by Managing Your Response to Failure

No one wants to fail. It’s not something that we typically seek out as part of our personal and organizational character building experience. However, from a distance, we tend to mythologize failure, especially in the context of achieving future success. Certainly, the stories are right and the lessons instructional. They inspire us to persevere, but the failure-leading to-success legends don’t guide us how to respond and cope in the moment.

By |2016-10-22T17:11:56-05:00January 25th, 2010|Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine|17 Comments
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