Measurement is an essential and very important tool for transforming and improving organization effectiveness. Discover the Organizational Measurement and Feedback approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization's pathway to success.
Read article »'Embrace change' is a useless platitude. We often don't choose the difficulties or negative changes that spring upon us. But we always choose how we respond with these 'how-to' steps for staying above the line.
Read article »Strengths-based leadership development is the biggest revolution in the leadership development field in the last 50 years, paving the path for developing leaders with powerful data.
Read article »One key distinction between management and leadership is that we manage things and lead people. When dealing with things, we talk about a way of doing. In the people realm, we're talking about a way of being.
Read article »The journey of personal growth requires finding our own way by implementing a series of interconnected areas of growth and development.
Read article »Now is the time to prepare for our next harvest. We can't wait until harvest time to plant the seeds. We can't strike a bargain to plant seeds once we see whether the harvest is worth the effort. Our choices accumulate in our personal choice accounts. We're accumulating deficits or surpluses with each decision we make.
Read article »Strong leaders connect and energize people. They work tirelessly to ensure that no ones loses sight of what it's all about.
Read article »Consistently held expectations become self-fulfilling prophecies. Leaders see people as they could be – as eagles in training.
Read article »Leaders know that poor performance is like a highly contagious disease. The longer it goes unchecked, the more everyone suffers.
Read article »Effective leaders are made, not born. If we are not working hard to continually improve our leadership skills because we weren't "born with natural talent" then we are either copping out, misinformed, or both.
Read article »We need to either find the work we love, or learn to love the work we have. Get passionate or get out.
Read article »The innovation paradox: Random, chaotic, and unpredictable innovations need a stable management system and process to nurture the growth and development of "lucky breaks."
Read article »Hypocrisy is "the practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness." Authentic leadership is from the inside out. When we are true to ourselves and actively blaze our own leadership pathway, it's impossible to be a leadership hypocrite — despite how others might see us.
Read article »Discipline, consistency, and new habit formation moves organizations from Partial Quality Management to true Total Quality Management.
Read article »The determination to live out my purpose and dreams has been a strong personal motivator. It makes me wonder just how many unrealized dreams have died with their dreamers.
Read article »Six critical areas of personal development for inner self-leadership to move outward to influence, guide, support, and lead others.
Read article »A leader sees people as they could be, seeing beyond current problems and limitations to help others see their own possibilities.
Read article »We need to be careful about what we wish for – the popular goals of security, stability, and predictability are deadly. The closer we get, the more our growth is stunted and learning reduced.
Read article »Effective leaders build an atmosphere of accomplishment and pride through recognition and appreciation within the organization.
Read article »Our discipline and habits spring from our passion and commitment. To motivate myself, I need to find ways to increase my passion and get my heart into it.
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