While you may need to keep some facts private during a transition, the general rule is that the more informed your people are, the more they...

Jesus knew how to involve his disciples in the process of life. He gave them important and specific things to do for their development. Othe...

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...

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton, Jr. War as I Kne...

Major Dick Winters is an extraordinary human being. Very self-effacing and very professional in a soldierly manner. When I met him I had sh...

Here’s a shocker: your people already know you have flaws! So if you make a mistake, admit it. If you need help, ask for it. When leaders ad...

Your success as a leader depends on being free of self-betrayal. Only then do you invite others to be free of self-betrayal themselves. Only...

Leaders must share as openly as possible, erring on the side of sharing more information with more people, more of the time. Sharing require...

The corporate world has a disease that Robert McKee calls “Negaphobia.” It’s the fear of anything that is negative and the potential conseq...

I believe all politics is personal, because at bottom, politics depends on trust, and unless you can establish a personal relationship, it...

Trust is the coin of the realm for creating the harmony, speed, and teamwork to achieve success at the lowest cost… Yet it’s not enough to t...

Engaged teams are productive, enthusiastic, and focused. But how can managers keep a pulse on their team when these are very subjective trai...

In the wry words of N.R. Narayana Murthy, former chairman of Infosys, “In God we Trust; everybody  else brings data to the table.” Managing ...

If Grameen was to work, we knew we had to trust our clients. From day one, we knew that there would be no room for policing in our system...

There's an allure about humble people. They exude greater power, influence and persuasion than their overly-talkative brethren becaus...

Self-doubt and fear can lead you to want to blend in with those around you. But, trying to fit in with the crowd will cause you to disgui...

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

One of a leader’s most important jobs is to drive employee trust. Without it, you cannot drive change and accountability. When I was CEO ...

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

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...