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…
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…
4 Simple Tricks to Improve 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…
5 Judgement Crushers That Will Undermine Your Best Decisions
Without good judgement, you can’t have good leadership. Because good judgement is the foundation to making good decisions. Good judgement allows you to size up a challenging situation, and to make the right call. Good judgement allows you to examine a fork-in-the-road moment and to discern the appropriate path. And because good judgement is so vital…
Bridging the Gap: 3 Solutions for Leadership Chaos Caused by Emotional Extremes
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?”…
