My Six-Figure Rule
My Six-Figure Rule MindSet’s Leadership Principle #3 says this: Leaders work hard to help their employees find success at work and in life. Yep. That’s one of our seven fundamental principles of leadership, and I stand by it 100%. Here’s another insight …
The Three Pillars of a Strong Business
Complexity has a way of distracting leaders from what matters most. One of the most useful disciplines is returning to first principles – breaking a business down to its essential components and then building a practical framework – a mental schema – …
Why Your Talent Problem Might Be a Leadership Problem
I had an interesting conversation this week with a discouraged senior HR executive. And by “discouraged,” I mean one or two complaints away from updating her résumé. The source of her irritation? Managers. Specifically, the ones who treat HR like a vending …
IQ & Wisdom: Why the Smartest Person Isn’t Always the Best Leader
As a psychologist with a deep appreciation for psychometrics, I’ve always found the measurement of intelligence fascinating. Intellectual ability is real — and yes, people differ significantly in how much of it they possess. Despite what some may wish to believe, cognitive …
The Budget Dilemma: Workplace Culture Investment
Time and time again, we find ourselves shaking our heads at a frustrating disconnect in how organizations approach leadership development and workplace culture investment. A potential client reaches out, eager to improve their leaders’ skills and foster a healthier, more productive work …
Lessons from a Train Wreck: A Case Study in Mismanagement
Most marketing case studies celebrate success – highlighting client wins, sharing innovative ideas, and painting everyone involved in the best possible light. And yes, we can learn a lot from modeling excellence. But sometimes, worthwhile lessons can also come from examining what …
Breaking the Link: Process vs. People
One of the core aspirational goals we encourage our clients to adopt is the following: Every employee will report to an outstanding supervisor. Easy to say; not so easy to do. Let’s take a quick look at what takes. It starts by …
Are You Over-Credentialing?
I love it when I run across someone who expresses something I agree with, but they explain the reasoning behind the idea more cogently and succinctly than I could. The result is me thinking, “Yeah, what she said!” That happened when I …
Random Thoughts…Part 1
I had an idea for this blog post. I was going to borrow a technique from one of the most impressive people I have ever encountered, Thomas Sowell. Doctor Sowell is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. To …
Take the Shot
I was 14 years old. I was the point guard on our ninth-grade basketball team. We were playing a team from a neighboring town – a school that was five times larger than ours. The history of this matchup was a slaughter …
