Tweet There are some things senior leaders must have in order to be successful. I have held a senior leadership position for over 30 years and been in leadership over…
Tweet Are you easy to follow as a leader? In other words – are you followable? Followable may not be a Scrabble approved word – or even a word, but…
Tweet There are leadership bottlenecks all leaders need to avoid. When we owned a small manufacturing company I had to learn the language of the field. I obviously had heard…
Bad leadership is bad leadership. It’s usually easy to recognize.
It’s easier, however, to hide bad leadership in an organization, which isn’t growing. (I wrote recently that it’s easy to keep an organization small. Read that post HERE.)
The larger an organization becomes and the more growth, which occurs, the more bad leadership becomes apparent.
As an organization grows:
Tweet Most leaders will have occasions of worry. Worry is an emotion. You can know all the principles of leadership and still struggle with occasional worry. I would love to…
Tweet There has been a big communication barrier on every team I have led. Yet, it is often overlooked. Most effective teams at some point will do a personality assessment…
Tweet Being in a leadership position is no guarantee we are leading. Holding the title of leader isn’t an indication one actually leads. I have a whole chapter on this topic…
Tweet Perception is often reality for a leader. Over the years, I have learned how a team sees you as a leader is often more important than who you really…
Tweet Leadership can be expensive. If we desire to be leaders it will likely cost us something – maybe even something we value greatly. There are high costs of leadership…
Tweet People follow leaders they trust. So, building and maintaining trust is critical to good leadership. Thankfully, there are ways to earn trust as a leader. I’ve found trust develops…