Know thyself - it's advice as old as the hills, and it's the core of authenticity. When you know yourself, you are comfortable with ...

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...

At one company we know, for example, leaders were asked to estimate how much time they spent tiptoeing around other people’s egos: making ot...

Name It to Tame It is a technique that involves noticing and labeling emotions as they’re happening. Identifying an intense emotion (“naming...

We must understand the need for change. An unexamined life is not worth living...   The recognition of the need to change has to be a greate...

Improving your leadership effectiveness requires behavior change. A 360-feedback process, when done right, greatly increases the chances tha...

Expanded self-awareness... is one of the most important outcomes of any feedback process. People with little self-awareness are often puzzle...

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know. W.E.B. Du Bois Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography o...

A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. You can use this material to blame just as well as you can use anything else. Merely knowing  t...

"You can't focus on results because in the box you're focused on yourself." ...Even most of the people you've encounte...

Jesus modeled for us the spiritual discipline of solitude as an essential habit for spiritual renewal... Here are some examples when ...

Our [HBR Leader’s Handbook] research [interviews with over 40 successful leaders of large corporations, startups, and non-profits] pointe...

The research is clear: when we choose humble, unassuming people as our leaders, the world around us becomes a better place. Humble le...

Because the emotion of anger comes on so suddenly, often we are caught up in a verbal or physical response to the anger before ever consc...

[Psychologist Tasha] Eurich uses the term "CEO disease" to describe the phenomenon in which the higher you ascend on the corpo...

Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment. Paul Cézanne Embracing Change: 10 Ways to Grow Spiritually ...

There is clearly risk associated with empowering your team to make more and faster decisions at a lower-level than was previously the nor...

While the young Springsteen honed his craft every night in bars on the Jersey Shore, he enjoyed his growing popularity but felt that some...

One of my favorite books is The Power of Ethical Management, written by Ken Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale. In their book, Blanchard an...

No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don’t like work – no man does – but I l...