A well-known book for successful leaders entitled What Got You Here Won’t Get You There describes how success can contribute to a leader’s resistance to change and account for counter-productive behaviors. One is our tendency to exaggerate our contribution to the team’s success and minimize our role in setbacks and failures. A complementary view is that
High performance teams that achieve and sustain extraordinary levels of success have many characteristics in common, but likely the most important is a powerful, inspirational story. By story, I don’t mean some fanciful mumbo-jumbo that is posted on the corporate website or hanging in the headquarter’s lobby. I mean an aspirational narrative that is grounded
What is the biggest impediment to walking our talk, to living our values? If you peel the onion, you often find it is us. We say we want to live our values, but we often stray because of what might happen. We respond in kind when others go low and hurt us. We abandon our
Next Tuesday is Election Day. In this interconnected world of near-boundless media and pervasive personal electronic screens, we are being bombarded with efforts to influence our voting decisions. Regardless of worldview and opinion, most everyone is upset by our current state of politics: the rancor, the demonization of those with a different opinion, the choice
Remember the question associated with CONNECTION, the 4th C of trustworthiness? “Do they believe I understand them?” Or when considering a 1:1 relationship, “Does she believe I understand her?” It’s much easier to connect with someone you agree with. You are already in alignment. Much harder to connect with someone who disagrees with you. How