Moving Your Leaders Beyond Mediocrity: How to Elevate Your Leaders to Mind 3.0
In today’s rapidly changing and increasingly complex world, effective leadership is more critical than ever. Yet, startling data from PWC reveals that 85% of leaders operate at a moderate level of sophistication in their leadership—what we can classify as Mind 2.0. While these leaders are valuable and competent in many ways, most organizations are unknowingly […]
The Five Best Business and Leadership Books I Read in 2024
I am continuing to unveil the best books that I read in 2024. As of this writing, I have read/listened to 86 books during throughout the year. And, this week, I got an email from Goodreads telling me that I was in their top 10% of readers. I want to share the top books I […]
The Three Most Common Causes of Leadership Failure in Companies
Across my experience working with leaders across all levels within an organization, there are three causes of leadership failure that pop up more than others. In this article, I want to share those causes with you. But, what I believe is most interesting about these three causes is that they all share the same root. […]
Purpose: The Most Important Ingredient for Elevated Leadership
Here is what I have learned through my research and consulting: 7% of leaders are ineffective leaders who do a better job of keeping the peace than having an impact 85% of leaders are moderate to good leaders who are focused primarily on accomplishing specific goals or results Only 8% of leaders are great leaders […]
The Climb: A Development Program to Elevate Your Life and Leadership
This summer, I co-led a personal/leadership development program called, The Climb, designed to help people and leaders elevate their life and leadership so that they operate at a transformationally higher level. My co-leaders were Chris Spear (Climb Leader and small business coach) and Susan Spear (Nutritionist). The Climb was structured to help people vertically develop […]
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 Five Biggest Missteps of Executive Teams
Over the last five years, I have had the opportunity to work with a variety of executive teams across a variety of industries. From that experience, I have observed five common missteps executive teams make, regardless of industry. In this article, I’ll Identify these missteps, Explain what happens when these executive teams make these missteps, […]
The Four Cornerstones of an Effective Leadership Foundation
In my experience studying vertically developed (Mind 3.0) leaders, I have found that they prioritize establishing a strong leadership foundation to build off of. In this article, I want to identify four key elements of this foundation. Based on my experience working with executive teams, I have learned and observed the following: The Four Key […]
A Key to Elevating Leaders: Help them Rise Above Their Fears
A dated leadership theory is the Full Range Leadership Model. This theory suggests that leaders generally have a leadership style when it comes to how they operate as a leader, which likely maps somewhere along this continuum from ineffective to effective and passive to active: Here are some basic definitions of each style: Transformational leadership […]
How Past Trauma Affects Leadership Quality
We want better leaders and we want to become better leaders. Unfortunately, commonly referenced statistics suggest that the majority of leaders are falling significantly below expectations. Improving our leadership and that of others should be a priority. In this series I am going to make a bold claim that I believe is key to transformationally […]
