Lots of people ask if self-awareness can be developed. This group of leaders decided to give it a try.

About a year ago, I spent two days with an executive team of a healthcare organization. We were pulling together feedback offered by employees across the organization around the values statement. There was one in place, but over the years it began...

An interesting and unexpected lesson on leadership and giving

Everybody wants innovative teams, but it’s more about an attitude and point of view than anything else.Innovation. It’s the holy grail of productive creativity and everyone wants it. Or do they? What does it take to build an innovative culture? The...

When playing to your strengths, anything is possible.

I recently started a choir that I am conducting. I had a hankering to sing some high-quality choral music, so I looked to pull some folks together. Sounded great at the time, but once 21 people...