The military has one secret that most business leadership development programs don't know or fully understand; without adversity, you cannot have influential leaders. Adversity is like a blacksmith...
Category: Build The Leader
As a leader, you adopt a leadership style that dictates the atmosphere in your workplace and your relationships with peers and employees. You may develop your style organically, based on your...
Testing Leadership Skills in Interview: Red Flags, Questions!
I was once tasked with recruiting five new team leaders for our company; I thought this would be a walk in the park since I knew what made a good leader. I was quickly humbled when I realized...
At my old company, the attrition rate was high, too high. Usually, teams did one deployment and then broke up; my team stayed together for four years and did multiple deployments. This was all...
Why Poor Communication During Change Will Ruin Your Project!
If you are a leader or a manager, then you know communicating effectively is hard; getting what's in your head into your teams is complex and even more so during a period of significant change....
The true sign of an effective team is that it can reach synergies, or as Aristoteles told it, "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." An individual unable to pull their weight slows down...