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Leadership Today's Challenge

Today's Challenge: Leading a Turnaround

Leadership challenges come in all shapes and sizes. Think about your career – if you’ve been leading long, you’ve probably encountered people issues, organizational issues, startup opportunities, and one of my favorites – the turnaround. Today’s Challenge: Are different leadership skills needed to orchestrate a turnaround?

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Personal Effectiveness

Today's Challenge: Making Better Decisions

A leader’s impact, career, reputation and legacy are all determined by the decisions he or she makes. Each week, I respond to a question I’ve received from another leader. Today’s question: How do you make better decisions?

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Leadership Results

One Word… Data

Today, I want to start a series on some of the key words leaders encounter on a regular basis. They are words we may not fully appreciate, and in some cases, we may not even agree on what the word really means. Today’s Word: Data.

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Development Leadership Personal Effectiveness

Who Helps You Make Important Decisions?

For thousands of years, wise leaders have assembled people around them to help them make good decisions. This practice can easily be found throughout the pages of history, but it also persists today – among the best leaders.

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Personal Effectiveness Today's Challenge

Today's Challenge: Getting UnStuck

Each week, I respond to a question submitted by a reader. Today, the issue has to do with two different, yet connected adversaries – fear and inertia. Specifically, “How do you overcome fear to start something new?”