One of the advantages of a thirty-year career is accumulating enough evidence to support your convictions. Some people doubt that training can develop leadership skills, and think that people are either born with what it takes to be a leader or they aren’t. So early...
In my last post I talked about the importance of risk-taking to career and organizational success. This post extends that idea by offering five specific criteria for evaluating whether a risk is right or wrong for you. When considering a risky move, most people resort...
John Smith lost it! And, of all places, he lost it in the big-deal executive meeting. He went over the edge in his plea for some issue around a customer. No, he didn’t cry, although he did wipe his eyes before his cheeks got streaked. No, he didn’t pound the table,...
Time sure does fly. It’s hard for me to believe that it’s been over ten years since my first book, Right Risk, was published. At the time, risk-taking was very much on my mind. I was restless and overly content in a six-figure job with Accenture, one of the world’s...
The time has arrived for the Leadership Opportunity Blog Fest! Leadership is one of life’s most overanalyzed, thoroughly dissected, and utterly confused topics. But it doesn’t have to be. Instead of reading smarty-pants leadership books, or attending esoteric...
Many years before founding Giant Leap Consulting, I was a member of the U.S. High Diving Team. Every day I would climb to the top of a hundred-foot high-dive ladder (the equivalent of a ten-story building) and stand atop a one-foot-by-one-foot perch. Then, after a...
Some of our blog posts stir up more reactions than others. In this post, first posted on the Human Capital Institute’s website, Giant Leap founder Bill Treasurer argues that leadership isn’t about fame, nor is it reserved for a select few. Leadership, Bill argues, is...
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