There are only so many hours in a day. As your to-do list grows, you cannot keep accumulating more tasks. Solitude gives you the space to re...

From a leader’s perspective, intent is the starting point. “Commander’s intent” has a special meaning in the military that requires time and...

In that premortal council, when Jesus meekly volunteered, saying, “Here am I, send me,” it was one of those significant moments when a few w...

I begin with humility, I act with humility, I end with humility. Humility leads to clarity. Humility leads to an open mind and a forgiving h...

Effective communications: a combination of four approaches: 1. Leaders who have to tell and retell a story over and over again should remi...

Here are Google's leadership evaluation questions ( a scale of 1 (strongly agree) to 5 (strongly disagree) ): 1. My manager gives me act...

In every successful transformation effort that I have seen, the guiding coalition develops a picture of the future that is relatively eas...

[Clear direction] is the leader's number one job. If you don't do anything else, you absolutely must give clear direction to your...

“There’s a Russian anecdote about a man who loved his dog so much that when the vet told him he needed to cut the dog’s tail off he couldn’t...

In the mid-1980s, a University of Arizona surgery professor, Marlys H. Witte, proposed teaching a class entitled “Introduction to Medical a...

Skills and experience might land you a leadership position with a large business organization, but they don’t make you a true leader. ...

Real leadership requires personal influence -- persuasion afforded by a long track record of strong relationships built by trust. That rese...

Today, most assume that Xbox was somehow destined to be a winner, but having been Microsoft’s chief Xbox officer, I am here to report that ...