How high is your leadership curiosity quotient (LCQ)? The first indication that you’re low on the curiosity scale is that you tend to accept things pretty much the way things are. But if you’re an effective leader, you’ll rank high on the curiosity scale. Your LCQ will be in the upper range, and as a…
Transform Your Leadership Style from Hoarding to Giving
In your leadership, are you a hoarder, a lender or a giver? How you answer that question will go a long way to determining what kind of impact you’ll have. The hoarding leader The hoarding leader is someone who devours leadership learnings, but keeps it all to themselves. Rather than investing their knowledge and experience…
How to Turn Your Vision into Action with Three Simple Questions
This article is part of my Global Leadership series; Insights from more than a decade of leadership training around the world… If the leadership vision you are casting is not resulting in movement or action, you are simply sharing nice words. Leadership vision results in action. Whether it was Martin Luther King Jr’s, “I have…
The Power of Perspective: Managing Anxiety in Leadership
One of the most important functions of effective leadership is to master the power of perspective. Leaders require the ability to look at problems and determine their relative size and importance. “Is this a big problem, or a little problem?” “Of all of the problems facing our team, which is the most important, and which is…
Break Free from Assumptions: 3 Steps for Stronger Leadership
This article is part of my Global Leadership series; Insights from more than a decade of leadership training around the world… Leadership often requires the ability to make quick judgement calls. But when those quick assessments are based on weak assumptions, your leadership can be in trouble. If you want to maximize your leadership, you…
