Five Paradoxes Leaders Must Embrace

Leadership if full of tensions of one kind or another; areas were we need to strike a healthy balance between two competing priorities. In many cases, if not in most cases, it’s a matter of both/and, not either /or. In today’s guest post,  Eric Geiger...

Defeating the Weakness of Democratic Management

In my coaching practice, and early in the partnership, I tell my clients there are two questions that need to be answered to avoid serious trouble somewhere in the future. 1. How are decisions made in your organization?  2. Who has the ultimate decision-making...

CEO, CFO AND COO I RECOGNIZE, BUT WHAT IS A CCO?

The gift of discouragement is not listed among the gifts in the Bible, but plenty of people seem to have it and use it regularly! Parents use it with their kids. Spouses use  it with each other. Bosses use it with their employees. Coaches use  it with their players. I...

Some Leadership Time Wasters

For many years I’ve thought about Psalm 90:12 (ESV) “So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” It’s not a matter of just counting our days, but making our days count by how we steward the time and energy we’ve...