August 2013: “Where Do I Go From Here With My Life?”
Every week, I hear some form of this question from business owners, young adults, and mid-lifers. It comes from those just getting...
July 2013: Questioning Assumptions
“People would rather believe than know.” E.O. Wilson Professor Emeritus, Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Two-time Pulitzer Prize...
June 2013: Thinking Others Need Help: A Slippery Slope for Leaders
I want to tell you about three similar telephone conversations I had this past month: A surgeon called from another state to ask if I...
May 2013: Selecting by Connecting: A Leg Up for Choosing Leaders and Lovers
My clients report that they sometimes make bad hiring decisions for key leadership positions. They tell me their selection processes...
April 2013: Emotional Allergies
After you read this blog, you might not be itching to take a walk in the woods. Every year, 350,000 Americans discover that a casual...
March 2013: Changing a Belief to Improve an Outcome
A client and his wife (I’ll call them Don and Clare) are going through a divorce. Their three college-age children are fairly...
February 2013: Telling Time in Leadership
Ancient devices like sundials, water clocks, and hourglasses reveal a historically consistent quirk among humans: We want to know what...
January 2013: Three Decades of Questions: From How…to Why…to What
If you’re a leader who seeks to better understand your direct reports – or a parent wanting to connect with your children – learning how...
December 2012: Diagnostic Deceptions in Leadership
Standard procedures have been developed by modern medicine to diagnose a broken bone, a bladder infection or a blocked artery. In a...
November 2012: Examples, Connection and Separation, Mature and Immature
In last month’s blog, I explored the importance of connection and separation in work and family relationships. Dr. Murray Bowen, an...