“Leading is sometimes disappointing your people at a rate they can absorb” Marty Linsky The word ‘leader’ comes from the Indo-European root word leit, the name for the person who... read more →
How to Lead Without Authority: 4 Easy Strategies and 1 Hard One It is common to confuse authority with leading. The work of an authority figure is to provide direction,... read more →
“It is not the critic who counts; not the person who points out how the strong person stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The... read more →
My grandfather used to tell me, “It only gets real at the point of action. Everything that happens before the action is just preamble.” Anyone who knew my grandfather understood... read more →
Last week, I introduced John Isaacson and his three important attributes needed to develop leadership capacity: hunger, speed and weight. That post focused on hunger. This week, speed gets the... read more →