Four years ago, I became Chair of the Board of Directors of Candace House. The organization was in a shambles and needed a reset in order to make progress on its goal of creating a ...
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Lead generously and expect a lot
At one time on my leadership journey, I was stingy with compliments, stingy with sharing the big picture, stingy with adapting work to someone’s strengths, and stingy with relinquishing control and fully delegating a task. ...
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Acting on a whim is usually a mistake
Recently, I was thinking about a new way that we might be able to use a particular system at our company—a system for which we pay hundreds of dollars a month. I thought since we ...
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For a leader, chess is better than checkers
Great leaders treat their jobs more like playing chess than playing checkers. What do I mean by that? In chess, the pieces are different and do different things. In checkers, the pieces are all the ...
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How to get lots of really important stuff done
Given the title of this blog, you might expect that the focus would be on personal productivity or time management. Personally, I am a junkie on these topics and I have spent years developing my ...