Empowering Leadership and Music Articles
Each article uses our empower framework that we also use for our leadership coaching services.
The Feat your partners perform…
What Feat will you do for a partner...High School Debate was something you could not do by yourself. You had a partner, and you won or lost together, and there is something...
How are your Feet managed?
Do you manage on the wrong Feet?Breakdowns are typically the places where great stories start... not end. It is the realization that something is not working, or you are not...
What Feat engages your Feet?
Feet engage for different reasons...Happy "Federal-Sponsored-Holiday-for-Italian-Americans-now-controversial-because-of-who-they-chose-to- honor." Columbus Day was on-and-off...
… the renewal of Patient…
It was the classic corporate meeting, conducted in a classic large conference room on the West Coast. All of the officers of the company were gathered to hear from our new CEO. ...
…executed by Patience…
Engineering is a field that requires systematic thinking, applied linearly, and methodologically to problems. The best compliment you can pay them is using the phrase "reduced...
…the wonder of Patient…
My sons were musing with me about the continuing dominance of the USB interface on computers. The "Serial Bus" was originally looked down on - it was slow, it was "only serial",...
observing Patience…
Our boss had hired a consultant to come in "help our Team be more productive". It was like the LAST thing I really wanted to do. First, we were not a team - more a collection...
Partners for Patience…
We were in a bad place. We had sold software that we had barely started writing, and the customer was figuring it out through a series of conversations that had made it up the...
Patient management…
Those two words have NEVER been used with me... until I had to. It was the only thing that would work, at scale, with a global team. Being random and abstract is lots of fun, and...
Patiently engaging…
You may not realize it, but not only have I been working on an artist each week, but these themes have also been building. So after Virtue, comes Patience... well, after someone...
… and the renewal of Virtue…
An interesting thing to observe through this season has been the increasing focus on Justice - that there are things that are Right and Wrong. That actually can be a good...
executing Virtue…
We had gotten the critical part of the meeting, where we had laid out most of the issues and alternatives and were deep into the discussion of pros and cons. None of us had been...
Virtue wonders….
One of the Virtues instilled in me since I can remember is the power of Relationships. Watching the college kids when I was little, I noticed how much the enjoyed talking and...
How are Virtues observed?
As I leaped out of IBM just before they laid off 40,000 people, I was fortunate to land a job at Fannie Mae. Their Vice-Chairman saw a Business Week article (remember that...
Virtue partners…
A great mentor of mine said that you don't miss the work, you miss the people when you move on. That is particularly true of partners who are really that - who work tirelessly...
Do you manage with Virtue?
As a part of my interview process for my last "real" corporate gig, I was to the round where I was interviewing with leaders who would be my peers. One of them had been in a...
What Virtue engages?
It will not surprise you that I was a big fan of the early Woody Allen movies. His wry ability to observe the world around him, and turn everything on its head I have tried to...
The renewal of Delegation…
If you feel bad about how effective you are with Delegation, look at God. As we like to say these days "... you had one job.....". He set up... wait for it.. the ENTIRE...
Delegation execution…
"Every time I give them something to do, I have to redo it. Spelling errors, grammar, all of it!" Gently I suggested ... "... you have trained them to do that". "OH no! I am...
The wonder of Delegation…
Watching my grandkids, you watch as they slowly begin to control the world around them. Their first tool is crying, which puzzled young parents eventually figure out the...