Why Your Team Needs You To Be Precise
If you want your team to do bold, creative work, you must take the first risk by giving them clear, precise direction. Here are a few ways to do so.
Why Your Team Needs You To Be Precise
Articles about Leadership
How To Release Control Of Your Team’s Work
How To Release Control Of Your Team’s Work
Let your team do what you hired them to do.
Moving From Control To Influence
Moving From Control To Influence
Your job as a manager is to unleash the brilliance of your team, not to showcase your own.
Navigating Your Team Through Failure
Navigating Your Team Through Failure
After a failed project, don't just move on. Do this instead.
Keep Your Leadership Fire Alive
Keep Your Leadership Fire Alive
If you lead a team of people, you have the responsibility to keep your flame burning bright and hot.
Are ‘Ghost Rules’ Holding Your Team Back?
Are ‘Ghost Rules’ Holding Your Team Back?
Don't allow invisible narratives to limit your team's engagement.
The Two Things That Creative People Need From Every Leader
The Two Things That Creative People Need From Every Leader
Why the right mix of Stability and Challenge is essential to brilliant work.
What Does It Take To Produce Brilliant Creative Work?
What Does It Take To Produce Brilliant Creative Work?
What does it take for a team to produce consistently brilliant creative work? Just talent? A fun and vibrant culture? Sheer will? Actually, in "create on demand" organizations the answer is often something else. Something surprising.
Aim For Influence, Not Control
Aim For Influence, Not Control
Controlling behavior never leads to results beyond your own grasp. However, when you are able to achieve influence, you multiply your efforts and reproduce your values and principles in the lives of others.
Good Leaders Are Willing To Change Their Mind
Good Leaders Are Willing To Change Their Mind
One of the more concerning dynamics of the “everything is on the record all the time” world is that changing your mind - especially in a highly public way - has become Sin #1.
Stop Worrying About Your Tombstone. Instead, Build A Legacy.
Stop Worrying About Your Tombstone. Instead, Build A Legacy.
Your legacy is not just what you do, but also how you do it. It will be determined by a series of choices you make over your life about how to spend this moment - here, and now.
Four Fatal Mistakes Creative Leaders Make
Four Fatal Mistakes Creative Leaders Make
When the pressure is on, and uncertainty is rearing its ugly head, there are traps that even the most experienced leaders fall into.
Platforms Give You Pounceability
Platforms Give You Pounceability
How to build platforms today that help you pounce on opportunities tomorrow.
“Be a Laser Not a Lighthouse” & Other Creative Leadership Essentials
“Be a Laser Not a Lighthouse” & Other Creative Leadership Essentials
A few weeks ago I was privileged to hop a plane to St. Louis to spend some time with a great group of creatives wrestling through organizational growth and how to establish new systems to deal with it. After a morning session with the large group, I had the chance...