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Leading with your Strengths »

Leading with your Strengths can look a number of different ways, but here are three central ideas to Leading with your Strengths:

  • What Leading with your Strengths does.
  • What leading with your Strengths is not.
  • What you have to have in order to Lead with… read more»

Leadership Collateral Damage. »

Strong leadership can sometimes be detrimental to the people in an organization. read more»

Leadership Challenges in Lingerie »

As leaders we are often approached to correct a problem, a knot in the system. The challenge is to see beyond the visible issue to the cause and not be seduced by the symptom into relinquishing or abandoning the vision. read more»

The Leadership Tension of Raspberry Vinaigrette. »

Consultants like myself are often hired to bring in some magical potion that will help improve co-worker relationships for the sake of faster or less conflicted production. Sometimes that is precisely the wrong thing to do. read more»

Leading in Chaos »

This last week I had the privilege of producing a reality TV program about marriage and relationships. We planned for a year and executed it in 3 days and to call it organized chaos is a gross understatement. read more»

Beyond this place there be Dragons. »

It was globally accepted at one stage that the world was flat. That it was possible to sail off the edge of it into oblivion and unprecedented danger. All the unexplained of the sea, was thrown into the cauldron of the ‘edge of the world’.… read more»

Top 3 ways to lead yourself »

It may seem like a redundant question, but can you lead yourself or is that exclusively the privilege of another? Leadership tools are usually wielded on others but if you chose to use them on yourself which 3 would make the top of your list?… read more»

Make them eat Alfalfa »

Good ranchers know that their livestock cannot survive on Hay alone and must eat other forms of nutrients like Alfalfa, to keep them healthy. Leadership is similar in that from time to time Leaders must bring their team to a particular field to grow. read more»