Tweet One of my first managers frequently reminded us no one is irreplaceable. He would use the illustration of placing your hands in a bucket and then pulling them out….
Tweet A Life Transition for The Edmondsons I recently resigned my position as CEO of Leadership Network. Although my tenure is much shorter than I had anticipated when I arrived…
Tweet One of the hardest decision a leader makes is to release someone from employment. Making any kind of employment decision comes with the sobering reality, regardless of what the…
Tweet One of the biggest mistakes I’ve seen leaders make is forgetting everyone doesn’t think like them. I have personally made this mistake many times. We assume what we are…
Tweet The Challenge One of the greatest challenges I have felt as a senior leader is to regularly communicate the big picture vision I own in my head. Of course,…
Tweet All the leadership examples I post on my blog come from real life situations – either mine or yours, collected through years of leadership experience. I get asked frequently,…
Tweet Every organization has a life cycle. In fact, over time an organization will likely be many separate cycles. I have written about organizational life cycles before. But I have…
Tweet I remember an especially hard year as a leader. It was so bad several members of our staff had told me where I was letting them down. So much…
Tweet There are some things in leadership I could almost say I despise. Those things are almost always the ways people misuse or even abuse their leadership power – or…
Tweet There are a lot of gray issues in leadership. So many times I simply don’t know what to do. I try to lead by consensus building, but even with…