As a leader, there are certain things you sense before you see. Don’t miss those two words: sense and see. As a leader, you’ll begin to sense things under the surface: restlessness, discontentment…som...

How did you get here? Answer: not on your own. People were instrumental in helping you reach your current position. When we remember that, we’ll remain humble, and be able to help others around us jus...

Chances are, if you’re a leader, you’ve already had to make a call related to recruitment in some form. When you’re recruiting the newest member of your team, it’s essential to do a little homework be...

Do you know how to predict an organization’s growth? Just look at the leader. If he or she is growing, the organization will grow. If he or she is stagnant or regressing, that’s what the team as a who...

As a leader, you’re responsible for the vision of your organization—you set the course, define many of the objectives, and lead your team in pursuing your goals. There’s a little-known element of this...

Leaders primarily speak in abstract terms, while followers’ primary language is concrete. To minimize miscommunication and frustration, leaders must learn how to be bilingual.

It’s easy for leaders to lose sight of our greatest responsibility. It’s not making money, growing our organization, or even having a larger staff—it’s helping others. When you focus on others first a...

Remember those old-fashioned, beautiful blankets that grandma used to make? The ones that took months to make, comprised of patterns made from countless patches sewn together? As children, we would ma...

Instead of only focusing on our external effectiveness, we ought to pay more attention to our internal efficiencies. The more efficient we are, the more effective we’ll be.

If you’ve ever led in the midst of a crisis, no matter how large, you know that teams work together in a different way when challenges arise. Crisis times are stressful; there’s change happening at li...