Welcome back to The Basics. Check out the posters for the function of learning here. Learning is the beginning of the definition:...

Welcome back to The Basics. Check out the posters for the function of relationships here. The second function in the definition is the...

Welcome back to The Basics. Check out the posters for vision here. The first function of leadership is vision. In the definition of...

Welcome to The Basics. Check out the poster for this section here: Our goal here is to introduce the functions of leadership, explain why...

Pre-print copies of Redefining Leadership arrived... We are taking preorders now. The book will ship on August 1st. Over the next several...

I often use a metaphor of motion to explain the connections between vision, relationships, and learning. The goal of the leader is to...

You just finished this book. You are probably thinking, what did I just read? This makes no sense. Here is what will happen. You will go...

Our focus as leaders is on vision and relationships, not on tasks. In other words, we set the conditions for people to succeed, then we...

Someone performs a specific function wrong. So, the business wastes several hundred dollars of materials. That is a big deal for this...

Peak, Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool. First Mariner Books, 2017. If there is only one book you read about the learning process, it...

Vision is more than what you sell. It's more than a product or service. Sure, it is very important to understand your customer and the...

Here's how to fix the standard icebreaker question, "Say something nice about another person."

As I mentioned before, when I asked people to define leadership, many of the definitions included what I came to call “the three Ts”....

The moment of learning is not when we read the idea or when we try it out for the first time, or even the moment when we think about it...

This sounds crazy, but we aren’t born knowing anything about leadership. Go ahead and argue with me about nature vs. nurture and all of...

Natural leader probably isn't right term. It made you think of someone who's just plain good at something. And some people seem to be...

There is one additional thing that leadership is not. It’s a “T” word as well, but it’s a bit different that the other three. This is...

Learning occurs only when a person changes his or her behavior. That's the end goal, the only measurement that matters. So what does that...

I love to talk about leadership as this abstract thing. But I also know that getting to the real world is critical - the only thing that...

The Washington Post reviewed "The Harpers Perennial Resistance Library", a collection of famous writings about humanity swinging between...