You work hard and get good results from your team, yet the vibe of the office is not very positive and upbeat. You wish you had the kind of team that your colleague, Stacey, has. Her team seems to genuinely »
Is being liked a leadership strength? |
Success
No is a complete sentence |
Why is “no” such a difficult thing to say? We’re great at it when we’re two. “No” seems to be our favorite word at that age (at least it was for my kids). But somewhere along the line we forget »
Just be you |
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”~Joseph Campbell
One of the key tenets of Thoughtful Leadership is to be authentic. Too often someone tells us about the “right” way we should be, or the »
The upside of falling down |
“Fall down seven times, get up eight times.”~Japanese Proverb
I now enjoy skiing. I used to hate it. I hated it because I fell. And I hated that I fell. I once made my ski instructor fall »
The real ways to capitalize on failure |
We have written about the benefits of not being afraid to fail – taking risks, being bold, and not limiting yourself. And when you do fail, being able to make the most of a failure through learning, growing, and pushing »
Want to succeed? Fail first |
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”~Winston Churchill
I debriefed a 360° feedback assessment this morning and it was tough. The feedback itself was a bit tough, and my client took it »