Do you aim to be a problem-focused leader or an opportunity focused leader? Many work environments place a premium on leaders with critical thinking and problem-solving skills. However, that premium often places too much emphasis on being critical and dealing with...
Have you ever worked with a mentor or business role model and wondered, "How do they do it every day without breaking down?" Here's a fundamental truth from my book, A Leadership Kick in the Ass: your mentors and role models learn from every move they make, every...
Edited March 2020 Conflicts aren't comfortable. As a leader, you can bet you're going to experience them, and some will be more challenging than others because the circumstances surrounding them will be more challenging. Look at the situation we're in now, for...
Edited March 2020 Most people agree that technology is critical for helping get remote work done. They also agree that good leaders communicate using every tool at their disposal to keep the team connected and the work humming along. But as we researched for The...
This month, we welcome guest blogger, Mark Divine. Mark is a retired Navy SEAL Commander, founder of SEALFIT and Unbeatable Mind, and New York Times bestselling author of The Way of the SEAL, Unbeatable Mind, and his newly released Staring Down the Wolf. On TV, you...
Happy New Year...? I know we’re almost a full two months into 2020, but since I didn’t write a blog last month, I figured I’d get a pass for waiting this long to pass on my salutations! Anyone who knows me will tell you that I can be initially tough to approach and...
From every vantage point, be it political courage, military courage, moral courage, or physical courage, courage is most often defined as an extraordinary feat, an action taken while enduring exceptional hardship or challenge. To be thought of as “courageous,” we...
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