Every manager has been there. A task was assigned. The expectations seemed clear and understood. Time passes. It doesn’t get done.
Every parent has b...
Conquering each of Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for overcoming the next.
- Trust must ...
We are building a robust structure for high performance. Over the past three weeks, we have laid a foundation of vulnerability-based trust that enable...
A foundation of vulnerability-based Trust enables a team to have productive Conflict. Why is that important?
Because without productive conflict, wit...
Last week we established that Vulnerability-Based Trust is foundational for a high-performing team, because it enables the second essential behavior, ...
I think the world would be a better place if a lot more people got comfortable with a simple, three-word phrase:
I don’t know.
For any given questio...
You might hate golf. Maybe you hate the idea of watching it on TV even more than my sixteen-year old.
If so, bear with me. Although the storyline is ...
It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
That’s Viktor Frankl, from Man’s Search for Meaning.
I t...
My average word count has been creeping up these last few weeks, so I’m compensating this time by keeping it short.
Also, it’s spring break, and I’m ...
Here in Arendelle
The winters can be… well…
Let’s just say it’s not so very good
But even at this latitude
We’ll keep a happy attitude
Until we b...
“I would regard it as a sentence to hell if they gave me some company with a million employees to change the culture.”
That’s what the late Charlie M...
In a seventeenth-century building in the town of Sèvres, just west of Paris, there sits a 1.5 inch diameter, 1.5 inch tall cylinder made from an alloy...
You’ve probably had this experience: stopped in multiple lanes of traffic, you sense your car unexpectedly rolling backward. A sudden wave of adrenali...
Victory came at 6:12 p.m. on Day Two of the battle.
Instead of a white flag, my adversary signaled their surrender by displaying an administrator log...
In my mind, I can encapsulate the last year or two and the people I know—friends, family, and acquaintances—in an imaginary sphere, personally signifi...
A text message buzzed my phone one spring day a couple years ago. It was a concerned neighbor unsure what to do about two fledgling hawks on the groun...
Naming companies is hard.
When Martha and I set out to name our business, we wanted something that conveyed our desire to help people sort through th...
The odds are good that you are reading these words on a mobile device made by Apple, Google, or Samsung. The odds are even better that your device con...
Before we signed our daughter up for her first riding lesson, Martha and I had no experience with horses beyond an occasional trail ride at a state pa...
The year is now 2025! By the time we reach its end twelve months hence, fully one-fourth of the twenty-first century will be behind us.
Between now a...
The holiday season is upon us, and, ready or not, your emotional intelligence skills are about to be tested!
Last week we shared the first two compos...
It is rarely a lack of cognitive horsepower that derails careers, loses sales, damages relationships, or results in failed leadership initiatives.
In...
I have been called “stoic” on more than one occasion. I suppose that’s understandable, though my outwardly subdued demeanor belies the relatively high...
I grew up with a wood-burning stove in the living room. It did a fantastic job of generating heat in the winter, though it was less fantastic at distr...
