The danger of consensus leadership: how to avoid mediocrity and stifled innovation
Many decisions have no clear, obvious correct answer. For some decisions, the best answer is difficult and possibly even painful. This is perhaps the most difficult aspect of leadership—the need to forge a path when it is unclear or challenging.
Respected leaders do this: learn how to build real influence
Most leaders end up in their roles for reasons other than knowing how to lead.
Is your vision statement doing more harm than good?
The only thing worse than not having a clear vision is having a poorly defined vision.
The myth of the charismatic leader
Effective leadership doesn’t require charisma. It requires character and competency.
Why leadership development programs fail
Most leadership development programs aren't worth a bucket of warm spit. Actually, they might be worse than that.
Assume someone is recruiting your best employees. What will you do?
The winning strategy is this: Be the best at attracting, building, and retaining your team. You can't play without a team.
Should you use a virtual team? 10 questions to help you decide
While today's virtual teams leverage new technology, the underlying principles of what makes that work haven't changed.
Evaluating board maturity: essential steps for advanced governance
Find a simple, but powerful, framework you can use as a tool to assess how your current board is functioning and what it needs to focus on.
Create a circle of trust: selecting advisors who amplify your success
As the saying goes, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Successful leaders surround themselves with successful advisors.
Deciding what’s next: a guide to choosing when all options seem goood
What should you do when faced with two seemingly strong paths? Sometimes, a fast, good decision is superior to a slow, perfect decision.
Unlearning scarcity: How to grow by letting go of limitations
Scarcity or abundance, your view of each of these may impact how you lead.
Why so many leaders get discouraged and distracted
Why do leaders get discouraged and distracted? Christian Muntean looks at how to overcome the most common leadership difficulties.
6 steps to increase your follow-through
Are you following through? If so, good for you! That places you within a very small club of people who make “it” happen. To stay in it this far, you probably (knowingly or not) did certain things differently than those who haven’t followed through.
Unlocking productivity: The 3 principles that changed a leader’s life and business
Most leaders struggle with getting it all done. Here are three principles that I find to be enormously helpful.
How self-image steers success
Leaders can be like lighthouses, guiding and directing others during dark, stormy, turbulent times. But they can only do this well if their own light is well-maintained, strong, and bright.
How to prepare someone on your team for executive leadership
While it is possible to find qualified candidates, there are farther and fewer in between. In fact, I support developing a robust, assertive recruitment strategy. Don’t be shy about choosing it.
6 questions to help you define success
Here are some questions that I think are interesting. They help us clarify what we are trying to achieve. I’d encourage you to set aside a few minutes and chew on these. I suspect they’ll give you a different perspective on what you’d like this year to be about.
Are you fit to lead?
Personal development is leadership development. Taking care of your body is justified. It is worth the time and effort. It’s an investment, not a luxury. It’s part of how you lead well.
6 leadership lessons discovered in the workshop of adversity
Very rarely do businesses set vision statements that are too small. The tendency is to either have no vision at all or one that is improbably grandiose. Both are errors.
The art of letting go
Decisions about ‘letting go’ are often the most difficult ones that I have with my clients. They often struggle with letting go of distracting, unproductive, or damaging cultural or professional practices, team members, goals and dreams, or investments of some kind.
