Implementing Your Decisions
While decision-making happens in contained environments, decision implementation is organization-wide. Your decision to hire—or fire—someone, for instance, has consequences for your entire...
View ArticleTaking Staff for Granted
It can become easy to take your team for granted. But you must understand that your success depends on your team! If you want to succeed, you can’t take any of them for granted. Your team will sense if...
View ArticleIntegrity and Character
All we have is our integrity and our character. At the end of the day, those are the only things that can’t be taken from you. However, you can give them away. Integrity is a word that implies the...
View ArticleAddressing Internal Conflict
Internal conflict is often ignored; but it’s so easy to sense. What confuses me most is when lead leaders see, and refuse to acknowledge, conflicts within an organization. When we ignore internal...
View ArticleExploiting Those Who Trust You
Have you ever been betrayed by someone you trusted? Not only do you feel lied to, but you feel personally exploited—they were keeping something from you for an extended period of time! Don’t ever...
View ArticleLack of Self-Awareness
As leaders, we’re very aware of everything outside of us—our companies, teams, finances, and so on. Being self-aware, though, is more difficult. It requires us to ask uncomfortable questions sometimes:...
View ArticleGiving and Receiving Feedback
Something in us likes to receive good feedback; however, when feedback is constructive, we can balk and become defensive. In giving and receiving feedback, respect is key. Think about if you were on...
View ArticlePlaying Not to Lose
Are you playing to win? Or are you playing not to lose? The difference is everything. When you’re playing to win, you’ll take risks: innovate. Be fearless. When you’re playing not to lose, you go on...
View ArticleLearning from Success
Usually, post-event debriefs are filled with accounts of what went wrong. While analyzing our need for improvement is good, we should actually be spending the majority of the time on what went right!...
View ArticleCheck out the new website!
We are excited to share with you that we have launched a new website. We have moved the Tuesdays with Sam Chand videos over there now. Click on the link below to check it out!
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