As a coach, there is one question I use to spark a client's growth. Learn how to ask this question and overcome your discomfort.

A well-told story of vision is so powerful that it can make a group break with reality.

The compliment sandwich doesn't work. It destroys the value of the compliments and fails to provide effective feedback. Here's what to do.

Here is an example of a leader who shifted the behavioral options available to her group until they chose personal and group failure.

We often pick behaviors that produce results we don’t like, or behaviors that use methods we aren’t comfortable with. Why?

A "strong" leader is often an unsuccessful one. Learn what to look for in a leader instead of strength.

People learn to lead poorly in the same manner they learn to lead well. And they get better at leading poorly.

Leadership begins with the story of vision. This possible future, and not our personal preferences or desires, is what we lead towards.

Leadership allows us to change other's behavior. When we lack leadership, we use power to force others to behave in the way that we want.

You can’t possibly lead if you aren’t on the floor, where you see the functions of leadership and the process of work in action.

Life is a process of narrowing. When we are young, we explore the world. We experience many things, we meet many people, and we begin to...

Job interviews are hard. The hardest part is often the situational questions, where we demonstrate our capabilities by telling the story...

This is a case study of a leader who is stuck. Where are you stuck? Because that moment is where you need to learn.

When we lead, it becomes difficult to separate "what we know" from "who we are". This is when leaders get fired.

Only when we see the external limitations placed upon us can we understand our full potential.

Every interaction has the possibility of creating value in the world. If you want to lead, learn Priya Parker's methods.

Sometimes we don't know what behavior a situation requires, even though we see everything else. That's when we need a leadership cookbook.

Feedback is useless without a process to assess and learn from it. Here's how to do this.

Inadequacy, self-doubt, failure: these feelings allow us to see that we could have performed a task more effectively. Without them, we...

If we try to improve without new ideas, we aren't learning: we are practicing what we already know.