As a leader, you know there is much more work to accomplish than your time will permit. So does your team. If you’ve done things correctly in setting up and leading your team then you’ll know it when you are sitting down for your regular team meeting and you pull out the list of work to do, taking tasks for yourself only to have members of your team jump in and take them for you.…

Are like pilots without a license. Sure you’ll probably get there, but… Will you get there on time? Will you get there in one piece? Will it cost you less than an arm but more than a leg? Will you really know why you are going  there to begin with? Without context to a problem, we are hoping to solve an issues with an infinite number of variables.  But when we add context to the…

And what a great moment it was. What great flames of fury sprouted from the utter disaster that was your team’s crash landing when they tried to reach too high. Spectacular – this story will be told for years. It will be told for years because it will be the preamble to the greatest accomplishment your team will ever accomplish. Every team fails now and again, but the ones that are spectacular, that are borne…

It sounds like it would be, but it’s not. It’s about building future leaders. It’s about coaching others to take chances. It’s about guiding others through hard decisions, letting them make mistakes and helping them learn from them. It’s about shifting paradigms and worldviews to help people grow and improve. It’s about doing the work no one wants to do, so others can grow through doing the more visible, important work. It’s about putting aside…

Do you feel guilty when you ask someone the hard questions?  When you really put it to them – not in a demeaning or rude way, but in a direct fashion where you need to know the answers in order to proceed? It’s odd isn’t it, how guilty we start to feel that we had the audacity to ask these questions? Maybe I was too hard? Did I come off too strong? What will they…