According to the book The Leadership Challenge, one of the things leaders can start doing to become better leaders is to ask people to...

RIGHT KIND OF WRONG - PART ONE In Part One of her book (Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well), Dr. Edmondson introduces a...

Photo: Jocko Willink (left) and Leif Babin (right) I've written before about "extreme ownership" and how passing the buck (i.e., blaming...

I was once part of a leadership development initiative (in 2019) that required partnering and collaborating with a third-party vendor,...

In this book review of The Leadership Challenge (7th ed.) by James (Jim) Kouzes and Barry Posner, I'll compare the 7th edition (2023) to...

“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must...

If there's one thing I've learned from attaining my Ph.D. it is this — don't outsource your thinking. As a society, we've become lazy,...

SUMMARY Based on her many years of watching all types of individuals react to the issues surrounding diversity, equity, inclusion, and...

IMPORTANT: For this book summary, I'll be using and referencing other books by the author(s) to better provide context, examples, and...

“Our lives are measured in moments, and defining moments are the ones that endure in our memories.” -Chip Heath & Dan Heath In The Power...

Photo: Screenshots of Apple 1984 Super Bowl TV Commercial I have been in companies that operated with an extremely competitive culture...

I was contacted by a journalist writing a story about workplace communication, why human beings need human-to-human connection in the...

Have you noticed that, in many companies, employees often have no clue what many of the other employees in other functions do to support...

I’ve spent more than a decade working in three related and intersecting fields: Training, Learning & Development, and Leadership...

The traditional, physical office is not going away any time soon despite advances in technology allowing people to work remotely, either...

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”-William Shakespear In his book, The Obstacle Is the Way, Ryan Holiday...

[Note: This post was updated July 2024 for freshness & clarity.] In the book, Extreme Ownership, Leif Babin (a U.S. Navy SEAL officer who...

“Oversupervising or undersupervising—that is, giving people too much or too little direction—has a negative impact on people’s...

Overplanning is defined as planning excessively or in more detail than is necessary. No Amount of Planning Can Ever Replace Just Getting...

“Layoffs are mostly bad for companies, harmful for the economy, and devastating for employees.” -Newsweek (2010) In December 2017, I...