Like many of you, ideas are my stock in trade. Whether writing the next article, designing a new workshop or course, providing strategy advisory services for a client, or supporting my coaching clients, I have to operate with a well-oiled idea machine. When the idea machine grinds to a halt, I'm in trouble and need to find a fun, engaging, practical approach to restarting it. Here are 14 hacks I use to restart mine:
It's the perfect time in our world to vanquish the long-perpetuated and unproductive myth that leaders are somehow meaningfully different from managers.
In some organizations, "being assigned a coach" has a negative connotation. That's too bad. If you are on the receiving end of an offer from your boss to take on a coach, strive to understand the rationale and then embrace the opportunity for the learning and growth experience it offers you.
Leadership Indecency is an admittedly awkward, uncommon phrase. I like it. It's the perfect phrase to describe the many amoral examples and practices of leadership we encounter in our organizations and institutions.
Goals are critically important in our personal and professional growth. They push us to learn, grow, and strive. We change our lives by aspiring for big goals. We motivate ourselves and our team members with properly developed, challenging goals. And we change the vector and fate of organizations through the proper use of goals. The operative phrase is "the proper use of goals."
Developing as a manager is a perpetual exercise in leveling up. Just when you think you've developed some competence at the role and are asked to take on more responsibilities, WHAM, you hit the wall of new, ambiguous challenges. Here are the six big level up challenges I see for rising managers:
Here are my top choices for my personal Summer 2023 Professional Reading list.
I talk with many good people motivated to change their career vectors but unsure of what to do or even how to get started. As a result, they do nothing. They're stuck. Maybe you're stuck as well. Here are some tips to help you get beyond this uncomfortable state and into action:
Here's some hard-won and heartfelt guidance for MBA graduates as I strive not to sound like every other commencement address out there. Use the ideas in great life and career health.
As Layoffs Climb and AI Emerges, the Predictions are Flowing Like clockwork, bad news in the economy coupled with some scary new technology brings out the pundits offering exaggerated predictions for something or another. This time, the mass layoffs in techdom and a few other sectors, coupled with the excitement (positive and negative) generated by [...]
