Look, your problem is not a fear of failure itself, but a fear of being seen  to fail.  Gary John Bishop Unfu*k Yourself 2023 Day-to-Day Cal...

Like plenty of other things in our lives, part of our aversion to uncertainty comes from our fear of being judged by others. We are, in a ve...

When I took command of Benfold, I realized that no one, including me, is capable of making every decision. I would have to train my people t...

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. Lyndon B. Johnson Historical Highlights: The First Televis...

“If you’re already meeting for worthwhile topics, you can do a quick update,” says Axtell . You might say at the end, Is there anything that...

  "I ask the managers to judge every action they take -- not just by legal standards, though obviously, that's the first test -- bu...

The most powerful learnings for me in my journey as a CEO have been about what my job is not – It is not my job to be a judge. My job...

Keep perception and reality in sync. This is not about candor; that is the easy part. Facts without context isn’t truth. Sometimes people...

John Adams, ca 1816, by Samuel F.B. Morse (Brooklyn Museum) I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unl...

In this world of intense scrutiny, where everyone is looking at what you do...one reaction is to create management systems, more process, m...

A young couple, Lisa and John, moved into a new neighborhood. One morning while they were eating breakfast, Lisa looked out the window and ...

Understanding how we process anger – our own and others’ – is helpful in learning how to deal with it on the job. If women understand that ...

The curious thing about organizations is that having more people somehow doesn't equal more output. “As size and complexity of an organi...

[O]ne of the most reliable indicators and predictors of true leadership is an individual’s ability to find meaning in negative events and t...

In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed ...