Being a leader often means looking to push your teams to achieve difficult results against tight deadlines, with tough customers or with high levels of complexity. The challenge is to know the difference between…
During 25 years of my professional career, I would say that my bosses pretty much fell into one of three categories. The good. The bad. And the Toxic. It was…
The blame game - it's so easy. When sh*t hits the fan, the easiest thing in the world is to point fingers and find some poor unsuspecting employee to blame. Hell, it's…
Practically every coaching client that I deal with who is having a hard time either because they are feeling overwork or overwhelmed are struggling with the same problem. They are spending too…
Recently I was working with a client on helping them achieve some performance improvements. As we reviewed how one department was doing, my client picked up the phone and called the…
If I had a dollar for every time I had a leader tell me "I wish they had given me an engaged team" or "why can't my team be bothered…
Finland, it seems, is the happiest place on earth. Yes, the Finns have topped the charts this year in the UN’s latest World Happiness Report ahead of Norway, Denmark, Iceland…
The old command and control style of Leadership has been under attack for many years, but now we are facing the perfect storm, one that will consign it to the…
When I read statistics from Gallup that tell me according to their research only 15% of the workforce worldwide I think wow. But when you look at that statistic from…
Having been a strong proponent of Agile and Agile-like methodologies for the past 20 years. I have not only seen the benefits that can be achieved by implementing Agile but…