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…

There is a slew of tools to ensure you’re constantly in contact with your team – SLACK, Skype, Hangouts – to name a few.  Sometimes we use these as scheduled interactions and mass announcement platforms with more one way then both way communications. But the moments that generate the genuine gratitude from your teams are the random interactions – the text message to grab a bite, the call to see what’s up and how it’s…

It’s easy to look at a game, a job, a task, an anything and get down on yourself for having messed up and lost. So easy in fact that we don’t need anyone’s help to see what went wrong. But as a Leader, you need to pivot, you need to step back, this game is over, this project is done and now it’s time to focus on the next one.  Even if it’s not over, you…