When you are experiencing any strong emotions, you are not at your leadership best. Your best leadership will always flow when you avoid the emotional extremes. In one of my first jobs coming out of college, the question that buzzed around the office almost every day was, “What kind of mood is the boss in today?”…
Why Playing The “If Just One Person” Card Is A Losing Leadership Game
As a leader, playing the “If just one person” card is one of the weakest ways to justify a decision. It shows that you are holding a weak hand. Playing the “If just one person” card seems to be a growing trend among many organizations, and it comes from a false formula in many aspects…
Are You Still Making Team Decisions? This Is Why They’re Doomed To Fail
Teams don’t make decisions. Individuals make decisions. Every decision must have someone’s name written next to it. The idea that there is such thing as a “team decision” is one of the biggest myths in leadership. And correcting that myth could represent a significant leadership breakthrough. Someone must own the outcome. Someone must pace around thinking…
3 Ways Your Fast Decisions Could Be Hurting Your Results
Today’s leadership culture celebrates fast decision making. But the reality is, if your decisions are happening too quickly you could be doing more harm than good. A recent Google search on the question, “How to make fast decisions” returned an astonishing 490,000,000 hits. Some of the articles that appeared carried titles like: “How to Make…
How This Common Mistake Can Mess Up Your Leadership Decisions
Some of the worst leadership decisions take place simply because the wrong person made the decision. As a leadership mentor told me years ago, “If you’re not clear who is supposed to make the decision, things will get very fuzzy, very fast.” Several years ago the organization I was with had partnered with another organization to present…
