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It’s Not About Changing Who You Are
Making changes to how you do things is not about changing who you are. It’s about making who you are more effective. If you think you have no weaknesses then your biggest weakness is a lack of...
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When Blind-Spots Surprise Us
The universe is conspiring against me. Well, not really against. It’s conspiring on my behalf to take me to the next adjacent possibility. It’s tapped me on the forehead and made clear that I need to...
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Your Profile Is Not An Excuse
I’m a fairly detailed, action-oriented kind of guy. In fact, if you look at my DISC profile, I’m about as far away from the “people” side of the chart as you can get. But it’s not an excuse for me to...
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When It’s Time to Let Go
I was talking to my motorcycle mechanic about my latest acquisition, when a quote from Drucker came to mind: If we did not do this already, would we go into it now?” If the answer is no, the reaction...
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Walking the Trenches: How To Get Close To Your Customers and Improve Business...
Check it out, my first commissioned piece of writing, for an international audience to boot: How “bad profits” can undermine business execution success. Written for RESULTS.com, the business...
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You Need To Get Good At This To Be A Good Leader
Please don’t run away when I say this word. It’s something you need to learn to do if you hope to be a good leader: Delegation. I know, I know, it’s not very sexy. It’s one of those over-used words...
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Start With the “Why?”
Dan Pink argues that three surprising things motivate people: mastery, autonomy, and purpose. In business execution, I argue, you need to start with the purpose. That’s what I wrote for this month’s...
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Over-Communicate to Drive Change
First in a series about communication and change management Mistake #1 They Know What I Know You and your team have create a brilliant plan during that conference, workshop, planning session, meeting,...
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Tell Them What They Want to Know
The second article in a series about communication and change management. Tell Them What They Want To Hear Mistake #2 *I* Know What You Need To Know When we’re excited about a new project or...
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I’m Going to Provide an Overwhelming Rational Arguement, and then Fail
Third in a series about communication and change management “Fact, just the facts ma’am.” Great if you’re investigating a murder. Insufficient if you’re inspiring action or driving change. It is a...
View ArticleFloss One Tooth
I was listening to Tim Ferris one day talking about productivity and setting small goals. He was talking about how writing a book is a grind for him, and he set the small goal of writing “two crappy...
View ArticlePick One String
Flossing just one tooth (getting started, doing it regularly) isn’t the only thing we need to do to change a habit, but it comes first. Make no mistake, leadership and coaching is a skill and a habit...
View ArticleStart With a Cappuccino
I believe that big changes starts with small behaviours. Actual work, however seemingly insignificant, makes a huge difference over time. I also recognize (mostly from my behaviour) that getting...
View ArticleUsing Influence You Don’t Have
Can’t get traction on the changes that need to happen? Consider finding and using the informal leaders in your company.
View ArticleHow to Discover the Right Actions
One of my biggest challenges as a business coach is to get people to change their behaviours, that drives change inside their own business. Ironic, eh? Often the barrier is actually taking the time to...
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Leadership Lessons from the Music Industry
The music industry continues to change. Falling album sales eroded by on-line streaming, questions on how artists get paid and make a living, and technology making it easy for anyone to become a...
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Simple Things Done Well: Your Calendar
I’ve started a project asking people what they do that well that makes them successful. The premise is that the best do the basics better(1) – have a “basic” they deliberately do better than anyone...
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