The Power of Connection

Enjoy this excerpt from our new book, Healthy Leadership. Healthy leaders create emotional bonds with their teams. We are wired to seek connections in our world. Humans are social creatures by design—and healthy leaders know and prioritize this truth. They excel not only at connecting directly with their team members, but also at helping team members…

My Very Best Friend

In Healthy Leadership, the chapter on Positivity addresses talking yourself up. That section starts with: “You talk more to yourself than to anyone else in the world. You are the only one who is with you 100 percent of the time. The conversations you have with yourself have an overwhelmingly high impact on your mindset compared to…

Connect

Enjoy this excerpt from our new book, Healthy Leadership. After hijacked planes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of flights around the world were forced to land at airports that weren’t their intended destinations. A whopping thirty-eight of…

Expectation Gaps = Execution Gaps

Enjoy this excerpt from our new book, Healthy Leadership. Just as winning in sports starts with practice, winning in business starts with understanding the performance process and expectations. If you wait until after the work is done, you are simply imposing consequences rather than inspiring performance. That’s why aligning with your teams on expectations is a…

Live in the Present

Enjoy this excerpt from our new book, Healthy Leadership. One of our favorite poems says it best: Yesterday is history,Tomorrow is a mystery,Today is a gift,That’s why we call it the Present.                    —Alice Morse Earle There’s an adage in rock climbing called the “three-foot world” in which climbers focus not on the massive rock wall they’re…

Learn from Adversity

Enjoy this excerpt from our new book, Healthy Leadership. Most growth occurs when you are uncomfortable. That’s why adversity can be our friend in growth. Since adversity has an uncanny knack for paralyzing us, it becomes critical to keep moving through it. Otherwise, we will be stalled in its grip. At 19, Amy Purdy was living…

Clarify Vision to Inspire Action

Enjoy this excerpt from our new book, Healthy Leadership. About 350 years ago, a shipload of travelers landed on the northeast coast of America. The first year, they established a town site. The next year, they elected a town government. The third year, the town government planned to build a road five miles westward into the…

Clarify

Enjoy this excerpt from our new book, Healthy Leadership. Consider a time at work when you were crystal clear about where your team was going, how you would interact, and what results were expected. If you are fortunate enough to recall such a scenario, you likely worked with more confidence, greater speed, sharper focus, and heightened…

Think in Threes

Enjoy this excerpt from our new book, Healthy Leadership. Simplicity facilitates clarity. “Thinking in Threes” is a powerful way to simplify organizational thinking and combat complexity so your team can be crystal clear. As a by-product, it also forces prioritization and focus, and the resulting clarity trickles down the organization. For example, we routinely ask clients…