Leadership Lessons

Employees Are Like Turtles

Coaching, Team Building, Focusing on Results, Delegating, Inspiring Commitment

close up of turtle looking outside of shell

Give your employees the opportunity to stick their necks out without getting whacked. What happens when fear permeates an organization? Consider a turtle scrunched safely inside its shell. When it is hungry or thirsty, it must move. This requires...

The Decision that Changed the World

Innovation, Delegating, Strategic Thinking, Customer Focus, Presentation Skills, Decision Making

Leadership is often distilled to prioritizing - deciding what to stop doing to focus on what you need to do. It was January 9, 2007, and Steve Jobs gave one of the most incredible presentations of both his life and in the history of consumer...

Frogs and Fighting Bulls

Change Management, Delegating, Strategic Thinking, Organizational Savvy, Customer Focus

Use your time and resources to stay alert to the whole picture and how it might affect you and your organization. One of Aesop’s fables reads: A frog one day peeping out of the lake, and looking about him, saw two bulls fighting at some distance...

Snake and Eggs

Personal Development, Coaching, Team Building, Delegating

Yes, it can be done. A lot can be learned from the attitude of a snake. Have you ever seen one eat an object larger than its own diameter? Look at a great big egg, and a small snake, and skeptically say: “There’s no way that skinny snake can...