Celebration is often a challenging topic for leaders. They wonder if they should celebrate and when they should celebrate. They waffle between “we don’t need to celebrate, people know we are succeeding” and celebrating every, single, little thing along the way. The best answer (as is the often the case) lies somewhere in the middle.

In the course of your day as a leader you are faced with many decisions. Some come in emails, some in inquiries, and some in meetings. Some you have time to consider, for some you will rely on input from others, and others you must make immediately. There’s no question, leadership requires decision-making. The decisions

Every leader I talk with, coach or train tell me the same thing.  They all tell me they have lots to do – more than they did six months or a year ago, with no end in sight.  I could write a post about the factors that lead that to be true, but that isn’t this post.

Yesterday I read an article in the online New York Times, titled Digital Device Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime.   While I encourage you to read the article, the title gives you the message.  I couldn’t have cited the research included, but nothing in the piece surprised me at all. Then, last night on the NBC

Yesterday I read an interesting and practical post by Jo Owen called Seven Leadership Traits that the Gurus Don’t Tell You.  While written from a C-level perspective it contains some useful thoughts for all leaders and I encourage you to read it.  It became the jumping off point for about two pages of notes and

That’s a great title, isn’t it? I mean who doesn’t like simple and secrets, especially when tied to success? The premise of the book is simple: summarize research around achievement and success then provide an example, lesson or approach that makes the research practical. (Hence the subtitle – “What scientists have learned and how you