Tag: Leadership

Get your focus back by reclaiming your final 5%

It’s a fallacy to believe your success at work can be separated from your success as a human being. Truly successful leaders know this: they focus on being successful on a personal level first – and everything follows from that

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Built to fail: Are your mental models designed to thrive?

During my time as a graduate student at Pepperdine, I had the good fortune of meeting Dr. Chris Worley. He and a colleague published a book called Built To Change, an obvious play on the famous title Built To Last. In it

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How to lead in an unpredictable world

This year has been a trying one for many from both a psychological and a physical standpoint. Just last week, hundreds of thousands of people in Houston, Florida, and the Caribbean lost their homes to hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and

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Five ways you can shape your company’s culture

Leaders create culture. Understanding this principle adds a dimension to leadership that many don’t expect or even care to focus on in the midst of a rapid scale of a business or hitting a financial metric. But as many parents

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What keeps you from living your truth, speaking your truth? Maybe it is Maslow’s Anchor.

For most of us, the bottom two sections of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is nothing but a trap. It isn’t real. We (should) have no real fears of security or our basic existence each day. Sure, it could happen. And

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The Shadow Side of Organizational Culture

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” — C.G. Jung Organizational culture is a hot topic. It is becoming a part of the brand of many companies and differentiating them as employers, and

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