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The Elusive Decision Making Skill of Noticing

As a leader, you’re responsible for decision making each day. But how confident are you in your ability to notice all pertinent information? If you’re

March 30, 2015 No Comments

Leadership Decisions: Fast and Slow Thinking

Last week I posted about avoiding faulty thinking in Chip and Dan Heath’s book Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work (Random

March 23, 2015 No Comments

Smart Decisions: Avoid Faulty Thinking

I’m curious about business decision processes and I’ve been thinking about how even smart leaders can make the wrong choices. For one thing, I’ve been

March 19, 2015 No Comments

How to Develop as an Authentic Leader:
8 Questions to Ask Yourself

As you read this series of posts on authenticity and leadership, I’ve asked you to think about your own leadership development and the path you

February 12, 2015 No Comments

In Search of Authentic Leaders

From what I see in most companies, employees at all organizational levels seek meaning and fulfillment at work. And most are willing to work hard

January 29, 2015 No Comments

The Busy Manager:
5 Energy and Time Drains

If the majority of busy managers aren’t sufficiently engaged in effective conversations about basic management tenets, what are they doing? None of the managers I

January 22, 2015 3 Comments

What Do Bosses Actually Do?
The 10 Basic Roles of Managers

According to traditional management theorists (Henri Fayol and others), managers are supposed to plan, organize, coordinate and control. In truth, the pressures of reacting to

December 29, 2014 No Comments

Can You Measure Leadership Trust?

What if you could measure trust? If you could put a number on the degree of trust in a relationship, perhaps you could then see

November 20, 2014 No Comments

5 Leadership Trust Building Skills

I’ve been exploring what builds high leadership trust (here and here). Maister, Green and Galford write about the elements that build trust in their book

November 13, 2014 No Comments

What Builds Leadership Trust?

In the work I do coaching leaders, everyone purports to have high leadership trust with stakeholders. Surveys, however, show otherwise. (See my previous post here.)

November 10, 2014 No Comments