What Role is Artificial Rest Playing in Your Leadership?
While on a phone call with a leader last week, she wanted to discuss how stressed out she was…in the middle of summer! I asked her, “What are you doing to take a break and rest?” After a few minutes of reflection, she admitted that most of her rest involved an electronic device of some […]
Artificial Leadership
Have you tried it yet – ChatGPT? Or Google Bard or Jasper? How about YouChat? Adoption of this new technology has been widespread and instant. The term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ is becoming so ubiquitous, that we risk not breaking those two words down and remembering the significance of the adjective – ‘Artificial.’ It has prompted me […]
Lead Your Leader
Leading your leader is not part of the job description. When you became a VP, you were not expecting to lead your President. If you are a CEO, the board is there to give you direction, right? Not the other way around. But here’s the reality: Great leadership engages the people below, to the side, […]
The Missing Link Between Work and Happiness
The other night, my wife Marta and I were having dinner, and we drew this question from our acrylic box of conversation starters: “Does work contribute to your happiness or take away from it?” As I thought about my answer, I realized – my work is indeed work. Some days it is hard . . […]
Do More with Less
There is a common theme that we are hearing from leaders as we begin 2023. “Do more with less.” Both certainty and uncertainty about the macro-economic, political, international and business environments are forcing leaders to recognize they must do things differently if they are going to succeed over the next 12 to 18 months. In […]
What Do I Want? That is the question.
“If you want to lead others well, you must first lead yourself well.” This is one of the most transformative lessons I have learned in leadership. Leading yourself well starts with the question, “What do I want?” — a question that so many leaders rarely stop to ask themselves. Their first answer tends to be […]