Why Boards of Directors Commonly Misstep with Their Most Important Decision
The most important decision that Boards of Directors make is who to hire as CEO. Unfortunately, the success rate of these selection decisions is poor. Consider the following statistics: 50-70% of CEOs fail in the first 18 months 11% of CEOs don’t even last their first year 34% of CEOs don’t last beyond three years […]
Defining the Mindsets that Impact How Effectively You Navigate Life, Work, & Leadership
In 2020, I published my Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling book, Success Mindsets: The Keys to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership. In this book, I presented the following mindset framework based on the last 40 years of mindset research to help people awaken to and elevate their mindsets. In […]
The Twelve Best Emotional Intelligence Books to Read This Year
If you are reading this, you are probably aware that emotional intelligence is a critical ability for not only effectively navigating life, but also being a positive influence on the world around us. Check out some of these statistics: 90% of top performers at work have high emotional intelligence (TalentSmartEQ). Emotional intelligence accounts for nearly […]
Inside Scoop: Why I Focus on Vertical Development
If I were to sum up what I do, it is this: I help leaders and people transformationally become better so that they can become more of their desired selves and have more of their desired impact on the world(primarily through a focus on vertical development and mindsets) If you have read The Elevated Leader, […]
What is a Growth Mindset
If you were to ask 100 people if they have a fixed or a growth mindset, how many people would say that they have a “fixed mindset?” Not very many, right?!? Yet, my research echoes Carol Dweck’s research, which suggests that half of all people are fixed-minded. In this article, I want to explain: What […]
Leader: Your Calling Impacts Your Effectiveness
One of the most fundamental assumptions of leadership development work is that leaders operate at different levels of sophistication and effectiveness. Some operate a low levels, while others operate at high levels. If you are a leader, do you have clarity about what level you operate at? And, if you are someone who works with […]
A Concept that Explains the Root Cause of Almost All Leadership Issues
Look at the figure below, and ask yourself which side is a better reflection of your organization’s leadership culture? How Leaders Generally Operate Research has found that 85% of leaders operate more like the column on the left than on the column on the right. And, in my work with organizations, my experience confirms that. […]
The Intersection of Vertical Development and Mindsets
Over the last four years, I have been leveraging two different models when helping to elevate leaders and executives to operate a higher levels: My mindset framework, which I cover in my book, Success Mindsets My vertical development framework, which I cover in my book, The Elevated Leader Both of these frameworks help leaders and […]
How I Help: Leadership Development Programs
Of all of the things I do in my consulting practice, the thing that I do the most is support organizations’ leadership development programs. In fact, I do this in three different ways, ranging from lower involvement to higher involvement: Lowest involvement: I engage in a one-off keynote or workshop as part of a leadership […]
How I Help: Executive Teams
Of all of the things I do in my consulting practice, the work that I get the most fulfillment from is working with executive teams. I say this for the following reasons: I know that if I can help an executive team elevate, they can elevate their organization I have been fortunate to see that […]
