My co-author, Leanne Atwater, and I wrote our first two books, Applied Leadership Development and Becoming A Leader, to provide practical tool kits for leaders at any career level. Our new book, Deepening The Leadership Journey, applies these tools […]

Let me describe a hypothetical situation that may be partially or wholly real for some readers. Your boss just told you that the company is creating a plan to reopen the office next month. You’re anxious, right? You have worked […]

With nearly a year of COVID-related workplace disruption,  I’m getting a lot of feedback from coaching clients who are experiencing what I call the Pandemic Work Jitters, i.e., the feeling that they are slipping at work. They tell me that […]

Each year as the US is heading into the Thanksgiving holidays, I am asked by several corporate clients to facilitate their CEO’s annual performance review. It is a responsibility that typically befalls the non-executive directors on the governance committee. Having […]

Do you remember the opening scene of the 1986 movie classic, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? Ferris Bueller, played by Mathew Broderick, had just faked an illness so convincingly that his gullible parents insisted that he spend the day in bed […]

Be Mindful of Socialized Observations My wife and I went on our first-ever cruise last year, at the time that the House Intelligence Committee began its historic public hearings on the impeachment inquiry of President Trump. We were both deeply […]

Becoming a Leader Nine Elements of Leadership Mastery About a year ago, my publisher, Taylor and Frances Group ask me to write an update to Applied Leadership Development: Nine Elements of Leadership Mastery. I co-authored the book in 2015 with […]

“Unsheltering” The Organization: Collaboration vs. Coordination I had a conversation the other day with a client who is the CEO of a 60-person company engaged in the wholesale financial services industry. The company does not have any retail offices and […]

Time Is on My (Our) Side, Yes, It Is A few weeks ago, I was watching Dr. Fauci speak during one of the President’s COVID-19 televised press briefings. He cautioned patience about a cure for the virus and stated, “It’s […]

Distress In A High VUCA (Coronavirus) Pandemic I’ve had many conversations with clients over the last few days about the coronavirus pandemic. Each was working from home and described the complexity of trying to focus on work while dealing with […]