There will be hundreds of posts readily available this week to help you set new leadership targets for 2025. Today, I want to ask you a very different leadership question: “Is my soul in a better place today than it was a year ago?” For 12 months you’ve been doing the hard work of leadership.…
My Leadership Journey: 10 Books That Impacted Me Most In 2024
Leaders are readers. And that’s one reason why, when two leaders connect, one of the first questions they will ask is, “So, what are you reading these days?” I love to learn what other leaders are reading, and very often what they share with me ends up on my own reading list. And so, to…
Lessons from Scrooge: Leadership and Compassion
Leaders have the power to give the gift of happiness, or of unhappiness, to those they lead. And the Christmas season is an ideal time to assess how effectively you have been distributing this precious commodity. This is not to say that the primary role of the leader is merely to ensure the personal well-being…
5 Leadership Traits from King Wenceslas That Matter This Christmas, and Beyond
A leader must be as relentlessly protective of their people as they are zealously focused on their goal. And as the Christmas season is upon us, you can find a vivid picture of how these two vital leadership principles can be intertwined by looking at one of the time-honored carols of the season. In Good King Wenceslas you…
Over-Solving: What it is, How it Happens, and Why it Hurts Your Leadership
This article is part of my Global Leadership series; Insights from more than a decade of leadership training around the world… In your leadership, have you ever been guilty of over-solving a problem? Over-solving a problem is when you have squandered precious resources in a way wholly disproportionate to the size of the problem you…
