Blog Articles
In-between Times: Three Coping Strategies
Three coping strategies for the significant and uncomfortable stress characteristic of a liminal period.
The Year in Review: Lifting the Fog
Opportunities for a deeper personal leadership reflection typically require us to get out of our daily “fog.”
What Are You Doing with Your Dash?
Our real selves know that authentic joy and our deepest sense of comfort come from releasing the need to prove anything.
Leading through Liminal Space
Embrace the forces that help to shape us, as individuals and leaders, into more evolved versions of ourselves, for personal and professional growth.
Feast on Your Life: A New Year’s Reflection
The amount of overlap between your self-image and ideal self usually determines the degree of inner congruence you experience
Leadership Lessons from the Golf Course
Taking golf lessons leads the author to life and leadership lessons in growth mindset, focus, relaxing, and practice.
Transformational Leadership: Creating “Road to Damascus” Moments
Two seemingly unconnected leaders introduce a transformational leadership model for shaping the future and how to apply it toward achieving a grand vision.
Through the Looking Glass: Reflections for the New Year
A year-end reflection: first looking back at the past year, then looking at the present, and then gazing forward, with a tool to help maintain balance.
When Deciding Gets Hard
People want both decisive leaders and effective decisions. Here are some proven approaches to being and making just that.
What My Mom and Her Friends Can Teach Us about Teamwork
The simpler pursuits of my mom and her friends teach lessons for the more complex tasks involved in building effective work teams.
Who Will Lead From Here: One Way Forward
All of us are being called upon to find out who we really are and to live authentically, in the service of this world. How do we use that to lead?
Dangerous Leadership: When Safety is Violated
A leader’s behavior has a big impact on psychological safety. Since psychological safety is critical to team performance, leaders must be self-aware.
Stumbling in Life and Leadership: Recovering after a Fall
The life paths of people of deep character and virtue — the best leaders — are characterized not by a pattern of defeat, recognition, and redemption.
Navigating by Feedback: What Leaders and Moths Have in Common
Navigating consistently by your deeper sense of purpose may not only help you be a better leader, it may even extend your life.
The Stories We Lead By: 4 Steps to Conscious Authorship
Our role as makers of meaning through the narratives we create is profoundly important and fundamentally human. We need to be vigilant of our authorship,