No one does the leader's job flawlessly, believe me. You've got to make mistakes and learn from them. Yankees manager Joe Torree got...

An organization can execute only if the leader's heart and soul are immersed in the company. Leading is more than thinking big, or schmo...

The evolution from the traditional values of control, predictability and consistency - values that made change relatively simple to implemen...

Charlie O. Simms taught a journalism 101 class in Beverly Hills High School. He started the first day of the class Nora Ephron attended muc...

Monty Williams is a man of many sayings. Some of them, like, “Well done is better than well said,” have made it onto hats. Others sneak int...

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

“What do you think?” I ask this question a lot. My team knows that when they come to me with a question, this is likely the question ...

Important advice to any leader is to be humble enough to admit that you don't know something. Too many people come in to a leadership...

There are different levels of listening. Not every conversation requires the highest levels of listening, but many conversations would be...

Good listening is much more than being silent while the other person talks. To the contrary, people perceive the best listeners to be tho...

Have the courage to say I don't know. Louis Agassiz Brave companions: portraits in history by David McCullough . Simon and...

Wright: When you bring someone into the Spurs organization, what do you look for? Popovich: Oh, boy. This is going to be a long interview...

Awakened leadership is reflective. When you reflect on things, you consider them from multiple angles, and think deeper about them than a s...

Michael Smithson, a social scientist at Australian National University who co-taught an online course on ignorance this summer, uses this ...

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

[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...

I’m always shocked by how many plans and action items come out of meetings without being assigned due dates. Even when dates are assigned...

So how can you do this? It requires a few qualities. You’re willing to get experience doing the work of your team. This doesn’t mean g...

There's no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a c...

10 things that make people feel disrespected: Looking at computer screens and cell phones during conversations. Outburst of anger. C...