How to Handle the Performance Conference
Many leaders struggle with imprecise requirements of managing performance and coaching their direct reports. In my 40 years of experience, I have found the starting…
Agile Leadership Through Situational Mindsets
The definition of leadership continues to expand in complexity and focus. This paper examines the need to expand leadership essentials to include systems analysis and…
A Lesson from Lemon Juice: The Perils of Partial Awareness
We all know the advice of creatively changing lemons into lemonade. However, a story about lemon juice offers us another valuable lesson. This story begins with a man robbing two banks in one day without
What is Your COVID-19 Lens? Six Points of View
Our response to the COVID-19 pandemic must be more than a dualistic choice between preventing infection or “opening up” to save the economy. Simple, obvious responses lead to greater failure rather
Leveraging Mindset to Increase HR Influence
While HR creates, implements and monitors people, processes and culture, HR frequently fails to win support from decision-makers. I know my proposals were often rejected or deferred. I felt stymied since […]
Three Dimensions of Leadership Development
People, Process and Priorities THE STUDY OF LEADERSHIP traditionally starts by focusing on the leader’s personal awareness of themselves and their style in interacting with…
Women Who Created Our Future
By Dr. Mary Lippitt, Author of Situational Mindsets The movie Hidden Figures introduced us to Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, who were ‘human…
The Problem with Problem Solving
We have a choice. We can target what is going wrong in our organization or what is going right. Many leaders concentrate on fixing problems,…
Your Best Career Path: Tiger Woods or Thomas Edison
I am not a golfer, but I know that Tiger Woods started playing the game as a toddler with his father as his coach. Malcolm…