The function of learning allows the group to explore new, better ways to do the work.

Reading is a foundation of a deliberate learning practice. This REVIEWED discusses how to read as a leader.

Now that we have cultivated a shared story of vision and created productive relationships, our expanding organization is ready to explore...

Vision begins with listening and ends with sharing. Everything in the middle is how we assemble what we hear into forms that make sense...

There are several reasons that leaders must decide to fire an employee or else risk the group's performance.

This seeing exercise for learning is designed to facilitate the places to find new behaviors. Many times, we observe or read about a good...

When entrepreneurs become leaders of others, they neglect the leadership function of relationships. This sounds like "do it my way."

Entrepreneurs have vision. But it is not a leadership vision. Learn the 3 reasons why it is not and 3 tools to avoid these mistakes.

If your organization struggles to keep supplies and materials in inventory, this example of interchange relationships is for you.

Listen to this on the Short Takes Podcast or on your favorite podcast app (episode 48). The function of vision is a story that we...

Coaching is a hot topic these days. Everyone is trying to become a coach, or trying to become a coach of coaches. It seems like the big...

This one is going around, and I should have known better. I admit, I came into Cy Wakeman’s No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of...

There's a big debate about spending $3.5 trillion. Here's the secret: the challenge isn't that the ideas are bad. It's an unclear vision.

Learning occurs when we replace preferences – familiar and comfortable behaviors we have practiced – with new, more effective behaviors.

In the workplace, we have an idea of what we want another person to do. There’s a catch here: many expectations are never communicated.

Expectations are often conveyed subtly. Hybrid and virtual teams lack the indirect communication that carry these gently-stated...

This exercise is designed to reveal the expectations that are not being communicated.

The Vice Chairman’s Doctrine by Ian Dorowitz attempts to be both entertaining and insightful, but it succeeds at neither.

This book captures the scope of the definition of leadership in its full arc. It is an insightful exploration of the story of vision.

A label – “benevolent dictator” – does not turn abstract ideals into real-world behaviors.