It’s easy to play the blame game. I did this because someone else did this and it’s not my fault. I’m not going to try to fix these bugs because no one else is working on their list. I told everyone what would happen and now here we are. Not my idea and yet here we are. It’s a whole other game to take the hit and keep on moving. That wasn’t the best call…

When you have a team of great leaders and you are charged with leading them, are you really leading them? Do they need someone to lead them? Isn’t the objective that they become great leaders so they don’t need to be lead? Perhaps then as the role of leadership evolves it moves from leading – where we work with our team on daily tasks providing constant reinforcement and direction to mentoring where we take a…

Passion? Decisiveness? Heart? Collaboration? Team? Brains? Numbers? Will? Drive? Culture? Profit? Methodology? Lead with any, all, more, less or none of these, pick the ones you want, throw away the rest, but identify how you want to lead, stick to it and make it happen.

I have found that the best way to learn from those that are better than you is definitely not to do any of the following; Show them what you know first. Acknowledge that you are already doing everything they are saying. Push them to merely “get to the point”. Argue with them. You are there to learn (accept that), one of the best ways to learn is to watch those people in action (how they…

When you had to stay up all night to study for that big exam – who told you that was a good idea? What about when you had that speech due and you spent hours and hours cramming for it to make sure you could read it without any cue cards? And when the option was first presented to you, to choose your own classes that meant something to you, who made that decision for…