Why Bother Speaking Up? It Won’t Help (and other Destructive Thinking)
Have you ever heard yourself saying those words? “Why bother speaking up, it won’t do any good?” Or “I’ve tried speaking up in the past, and no one cared.” Or “Speaking up isn’t valued around here, I’ll just keep...
How to Avoid the Most Seductive Leadership Mistake
This leadership mistake is seductive–we know because we’ve been there. It feels good. It feels logical. And it’s the fastest way to stunt your growth as a leader. Have you ever sat in a leadership meeting or training and thought, “Oh,...
Forced Ratings – Awful Problems and What Leaders Do Instead
Forced Ratings Cause More Problems Than They Fix Recently we were working with senior leaders in a global company who faced a challenging morale problem. They hired talented capable people who were producing good work – but their talent was leaving. Leaders at every...
5 Ways to Think Like an Entrepreneur: Even if You Work for the Big Guys
“Entrepreneurship is a chance to trade a solution to someone who has a problem that needs solving. Solve more problems, solve bigger problems, solve problems more widely, and you’re an entrepreneur. It’s tempting to industrialize this work, to make it something with...
