The Courage to Trust Your Team

The Courage to Trust Your Team

Leadership is commonly associated with action – trying, doing, achieving. However, there is another side to leadership that focuses on the followers: trust. As leaders, you need to actively trust your team. This may sound simple, but it is often harder for the...
Give Permission to Be Courageous

Give Permission to Be Courageous

Often the most powerful action you can take to provoke courageous behavior is to give people permission to be courageous. Before starting my own company, I worked for Accenture. It was one of the world’s largest and most respected management and technology consulting...
The Case Against Intuition

The Case Against Intuition

By Nat Greene The following is an original blog post, based on lessons and concepts in Nat Greene’s new book Stop Guessing When facing tough problems, many leaders encourage their team’s ideas to spring forth in the hopes that one or two really powerful ones will...