If comfort is our goal, we will stagnate. There are a lot of external challenges that are thrown in a leader’s path – market shifts, policy changes, poor...
If comfort is our goal, we will stagnate. There are a lot of external challenges that are thrown in a leader’s path – market shifts, policy changes, poor...
Nobody is inspired by a leader who says “I’m going to fight to keep everything exactly the way it has always been!” Change is coming. Fighting for the...
Lets face it! We rarely pass tests if we fail to prepare for those tests. If you are waiting on some big defining moment for you to prove...
Hope is a great thing to have, but it is a lousy leadership strategy. You can’t just hope your people or children make wise decisions, you have to...
The deadly combination of fear and pride are the reason for most failures in character. And we all have had times when our character failed us. When you...
The headlines are all too common. Business, politics, law enforcement, and education all have sad stories about catastrophic failures of leadership. But these people are rarely incompetent. They...
If you make the new leader continue to pay for the sins of the previous one, will things ever get better? Heads up! This is a story about...
When we work on our consistency, we are working on our character. “Walking on eggshells.” “Not one of her people.” “Never knowing where we stand.” Her team didn’t...
Forty years ago this week, I entered the United States Military Academy at West Point. We were the Class of 1988. In our first week, we had to...
“You can’t fire them.” “Why not?” “Because they have never had a negative performance review.” Ask any HR professional, and you will hear this story. It happens in...
My best friend, Donnie Tillar, was the one who convinced me to go to West Point. Donnie was a year older than I was. Thanks to his persuasiveness,...
How do you get the Courage to have that hard conversation? It’s not by studying books on conflict. It is something much more practical than that. Here is...
If you live by the law of averages, that’s what you will be – average. A fourth quarter comeback won’t happen if a team looks at the odds....
Bold resistance shuts down bullying better than a carefully worded policy in the workplace. Our society has put a lot of needed emphasis on bullying in schools recently....
Without Courage, any talk of character is just theoretical. You need Courage to put those words into action. Name one good thing you have ever accomplished that did...
