Lessons on the Journey to Leadership
What a decade of running a company taught me about leading one.
- Leadership Journey: What's Your Badge of Honor?
Most leaders measure their worth in hours worked. The better question is which work only you should be doing — and what you are afraid to let go of.
- Shifting Your Mindset to be an Effective Leader
The paradigm shift from top contributor to leader: you are no longer rewarded for the things that got you here, and the habits that made you successful now work against you.
- Leading With Empowerment
A coach knows the game but is never in it. Four steps for handing off work — the last of which is to get out of the way.
- Leading Through Empowerment: Defining the How Behind the What
The Why supplies motivation; the How supplies a roadmap. Starting with the foundation everything else depends on — your direct reports.
- Taking Control of Your Time
If you don't kill the meeting, the meeting will kill your time. What happened when I asked my team which meetings I needed to see my way out of.
- Focusing on Your Most Important Work
Two columns on a sheet of paper: the work only you should do, and everything else. Then the hardest part — defining what failure you'll accept.