Thought Leaders

We all desire to be effective and successful. It's in our DNA. In almost all circumstances, we are more likely to be effective and successful if others lend us a hand in the process. How can we better connect with others? HELP - when we help others, they almost always...

What fun it is to play on a high performing team! What if we had the power and ability to shape the performance team of our dreams. What would those team members look like? Curious Relational Self starting Not risk averse Systemic thinker Emotionally intelligent...

Complex problems seem not to have simple solutions. Complex problems require multiple and combined engaged minds to craft workable solutions. Collaborative attempts at applying efficacious solutions to complex problems is messy, time-consuming, confounding, and often...

"Wish" and "Aspire" are both verbs that hint at some eventual improved state. However, they imply very different things. If we "wish" for something, it suggests that we're victims, somehow at the mercy of circumstances (of all kinds and varieties). To "aspire," on the...

The road to betterment is fraught with fits and starts. And that path toward improvement has way stations aplenty manned by the negative, the fearful, and the recalcitrant. Some Dos and Don'ts for the journey toward betterment... DOs: Stay focused Smile incessantly...

The most impactful people I know are intentional and voracious learners. They are extremely disciplined at pursuing and achieving the very best versions of themselves possible. Almost all those folks whom I watch, read, and listen to have mentors. The best of those...

When I have had opportunity to teach Graduate Research over the years, I admonish my students to be unashamedly skeptical. Question everything. Ask for evidence. Challenge assumptions. Accept nothing that includes a lot of handwaving, diversion, evasion, smoke,...

The late Dr. Stephen Covey oft advised us that "the main thing is to keep the Main Thing the MAIN THING." One of the most impactful of my mentors over the years -- Gary Harrell -- reminded me regularly to remain focused first and foremost on the things of "eternal...

Perfection...... isn't. Not possible. Can't get there. Pipe dream. Pure dereliction. What we can do is get better. Every day. On purpose.  That better state, however, is not the result of wishing. It happens only when we think carefully about...  WHAT we're doing, WHY...

The wisest leaders I have observed somehow manage to be in their office minimally. Instead, they continually move about the various work spaces of the organization. It's almost as if they're allergic to the office. There is method to that madness, it seems. Some of...