Jesus was a listening leader. Because he loved others with a perfect love, he listened without being condescending. A great leader listens n...

Emily Cole believes being Fans First starts with just "being a good human." She highlights how coaching good behavior starts durin...

Here are the kinds of things you'll hear truly confident people say. 1. "I wouldn't worry about it." Go to a confident fri...

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their minds. Marcus Aurelius Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Modern Libr...

Over my 30-year career with Lockheed Martin, I've learned that leadership skills are perishable. It takes a devotion to listening and le...

Think about it, the word listen and the word silent are spelled with the same letters. In order to be a good listener, we first need to lear...

I wish I could say that the need to improve listening skills and less-than-perfect coordination happened only in the past. But the tragic si...

Leading companies today asks for a different level of self-awareness from CEOs. Previously they may often have succeeded by “listening to wi...

Listen to everyone in your company. And figure out ways to get them talking. The folks on the front lines - the ones who actually talk to th...

Let’s imagine for a moment that you are a gardener. Do any of the actions below seem like a good idea? Planting a seed and then digging it b...

It’s important to be right at the end of a meeting, not at the beginning. If you embrace that mind-set, you’ll do a lot less talking in meet...

When [Monty] Williams was fired by the New Orleans Pelicans in 2015, he surveyed former players, who told him they felt like they couldn’t ...

Having everyone contribute isn’t just good for the end result of your meeting but for the participants themselves as well. People like to kn...

 

In the Corps, I was taught to use the concept of "command and feedback." You don't control your subordinate commanders' ev...

[W]hen leaders assume their answer is the answer, they tend to approach change as they would a political campaign — heavy on slogans and foc...

The most enduring change initiatives — those that drive real results — are based on leaders’ assumption that they are seeing only part of th...

  I think the first 3:25 seconds of this interview is powerful. Here's an excerpt from the transcript: Reporter : Following the huge win...

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

When [Head Coach Monty] Williams was asked how he has evolved since New Orleans, he didn’t shy away from being honest. “I thought I had the ...