Leaders have to Master Basics of the Human OS
The recent mass exodus of employees even from well-paid professional jobs has come as a wake-up call to the corporate…
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A Framework for Year End Reviews
Doing regular reviews at midyear or yearend with ourselves are a good exercise. Frameworks can help us orient and ask…
Leadership Communication- The Hidden Role of Language
Language, because of its ubiquity and obviousness, does not get much attention from leaders and organizations as an area for…
Types of Goals - Understanding the Nuances of Effective Goals
Goals and objectives are part of modern organizational reality. They are common parlance to the point where we often take…
Paradoxes of Leadership and Management
Leading and managing can be stressful and frustrating because of inherent paradoxes built into the nature of the beast. One…
Types of Contradictions in Organizations
Trying to eliminate something that by definition cannot be eliminated, can be a source of constant frustration. Understanding the nature…
Can we Eliminate Self-Doubt? Should we Even Bother?
Self-doubt is often seen as an impediment to effective leadership or succcess in any other arena. We have an image…
Speed as the Wrong Criteria
The notion of speed is pervasive in our culture and ends up becoming the de-facto basis on which we make…
How Technology Dumbs you Down
When reading the next book, attending the next course or even while reading this article, consider what we want from…
David Whyte on the Set of Our Sail and the Shapes we Assume
David Whyte in his extraordinary book on life and careers, Crossing the Unknown Sea, talks about “the shapes we assume”…
The Tyranny of Control – Why Leaders Keep Ignoring Context
Changing context through language is a powerful tool of leadership. And yet, leaders continue to underutilize it. They are focused…
Two Questions for a Midlife Career Change
Imagine your current career as a rocket ship barreling through space. Many of us, both metaphorically and in reality, are…
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