Leadership Caffeine™—Focus on What Matters
Your real battle as a leader is the one for your focus. It's a battle too many lose. It's imperative you figure out what matters and then focus. Learn to feed the mission, not the machine.
Feedback is Funny—Just Not in a “Ha Ha” Kind of Way
OK, the topic of feedback isn't stand-up comedy funny. It's funny as in odd because there are so many contradictions surrounding it. Here are five practices to help managers bring feedback to life as the performance-enhancing tool it is capable of being:
Leadership Caffeine™—Expect to Struggle When These Two Ingredients are Missing
Transparency is measurable. Accountability is binary. If transparency is low and accountability is turned off, expect to struggle.
Career Reinvention Journal—A Proprietary Algorithm for Career Makeover Success
Many people think about doing something different with their time and skills. Most daydream about it in moments of stress, and it stops there. However, there's a way to get beyond the barriers and the overwhelming idea that you have to solve this issue for the rest of your life. Here's my proprietary algorithm for getting career reinvention right:
Leadership Caffeine™—Harnessing the Power of Purpose in Your Work
If we're not involved in moon-shots or mars-shots but rather working for seemingly pedestrian causes or offerings, how do we manufacture that sense of purpose? It's easy, fall in deep love with the people we're ultimately helping with our work.
The Six Core Programs of Your Personal Manager Operating System
From the challenges of dealing with people and personalities to the never-ending, ever-growing lists of things to do, often with conflicting priorities, managing is a tough job. Yet, when I explore the stress points with struggling managers and ask some questions, I often discover they are attempting to execute their role without the benefit of what I describe as a Manager Operating System. Here are six critical components of every manager's effective operating system:
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