Cultivate hope in your team
“Let’s talk about what truly separates effective leaders from the rest. It’s not only charisma or technical skills—it’s their ability to cultivate Hope in their teams.” – Yira Muse, Ph.D. and Vistage Speaker. She goes on: “What most people get wrong about Hope in leadership: ❌ Hope = staying positive when things get tough ✅ […]
Democracy at work
Buildings in the mountains take a lot of abuse especially from winter weather. You can’t defer maintenance that you might get away with in milder climates. That is one reason we bought a condo in Mammoth so clearing the snow, and fixing leaks, etc would be a group responsibility, not just ours. It seemed like […]
Gamify your day
How often do you look at your best days and analyze what made them better? What if you could create a game around having more of those? Let’s say on Tuesday, you had a good night’s sleep, felt great getting to work, had 5 great calls, moved a project that had been stuck forward and […]
Don’t quit on a bad day!
Have you ever watched a TED talk with a colleague or a movie with a friend and walked away with a completely different take-away than they did? How we interpret data is of course filtered through our own experiences and our mood, ability to focus and a bunch of other factors including how tired we […]
School days
We had the opportunity to visit a rural school in Zimbabwe. It was their break time but a number of the students came to school to greet us. They sang for us as we got off the bus and welcomed us to their school. They were excited to see us and showed us around. The […]
Strengthen your core
If you have done pilates or are building flexibility and strength, you know how important it is to strengthen your core. It is not an obvious focus in the beginning – maybe you don’t even know where it is. Think of holding your stomach muscles in and you are pretty close. Stand with your head […]
The simplicity
There was a simple joy in watching the first Dodger playoff game last night while we made dinner. I had a new pork and mushroom meatball recipe we were making, and with a fresh batch of basil, I made pesto and a green salad. Paul had a silver tequila neat and I opened a bottle […]
Go Slow – the motto of Caye Coulker, Belize
Can you imagine a group of hard driving CEO’s spending a whole week together with spouses “going slow”? Yes, it can happen. It just did. A year ago at our last retreat in Lake Tahoe, someone asked where we would go next year. There was a long silence in the room. Then, Chuck Tapert […]
Innovation versus innovative process
Have you ever noticed that innovators talk really fast? It seems like the ideas are flooding their brain 3 times faster than the mouth can talk…or than the listener can process. Sometimes, before you can ask a question, they are on to another idea. Those who excel at innovative processes tend to talk slower. Their […]
Sensemaking is a leadership skill
In a Vistage webinar on Friday, Dave Nelson commented that in the list of required leadership skills for successful leaders, perhaps the most important one in this moment, beyond, vision, drive, effective decisionmaking, ability to attract and retain top talent, etc. was sensemaking. His talk was about AI, but this captured my attention immediately. What […]