Category: Change Management

Would You Know Leadership If You Saw It? Most Likely Not!

Very few business people have any idea what the word leadership actually means or how to use it effectively to help their organization change. Sorry, leaders, you have been thinking about and doing leadership all wrong. You may have been brainwashed into believing leadership is a more evolved, effective, and humane form of management. Or […]

How to Decide What to Do

“What am I going to do?” is a common question frustrated coaching clients ask. My go-to strategy is: You can feel stuck and indecisive because we tend to value not losing something more than gaining something. Some clients find working through the various possible scenarios helpful when they are at a crossroads. Here are six […]

Is Leadership What You Think It Is?

The late James MacGregor Burns, Ph.D. wrote in his seminal 1978 book, Leadership, “If we know all too much about our leaders, we know far too little about leadership. We fail to grasp the essence of leadership that is relevant to the modern age and hence we cannot agree on the standards by which to measure, recruit, and […]

Warning: This is a POOPy Post on Doing Your Business

“If you want to be the boss, you must deal with a lot of sh#t!” said my usually reserved Dad, who was then President of Dix Enterprises, Inc., a mid-sized athletic equipment reconditioning company.  I worked with my Dad the month before I started graduate school, and I had asked him what it was like […]

Collaboration Requires Character

I recently enjoyed a fascinating conversation with a psychologist colleague of mine, Ann Daniel. She has invested a great deal of her professional career advising a major health care network on how to live out the network’s behavioral expectations for effective working relationships. One key element which Ann teaches is the importance we all place […]