Best Of: A Leader’s Resolutions are Calendar Blind

This post is excerpted from my collection: Leadership Caffeine-Ideas to Energize Your Professional Development. As we head into the new year, it’s important to recognize that for the most effective leaders, every day is New Year’s Day. I’m as guilty as the next...

Leaders, Beware the Imposters: Triumph and Disaster

“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same…” -Rudyard Kipling from “If” Triumph, that moment in time when we have vanquished our competitors or achieved a level of performance long desired, is the moment of...

4 Reasons Why Questions are a Leader’s Best Friend

The best leaders I know wield questions like a surgeon wields a scalpel…carefully, precisely, respectfully and always with an objective in mind.  4 Reasons Why Questions are a Leader’s Best Friend: 1. Questions teach. They encourage those around us to think...