INSIGHTS FOR GROWTH

There are three things people consistently underestimate in every professional relationship: self-interest, ego, and competition. This isn’t cynicism. It’s calibration.

You know you’re doing work that belongs below your level. The question is how to actually stop. Four practical tools for leaders stuck at the wrong altitude.

I’ve heard some version of this from hundreds of leaders: I’m working harder than I’ve ever worked, and somehow I feel like I’m making less impact. It’s not a skills problem. It’s an altitude problem.

A VP with twenty years of experience and a brilliant track record sat across from me, convinced it was only a matter of time before someone figured out she didn’t belong. Her 360 feedback told a completely different story.

January is full of goal-setting. Vision boards. Strategic plans. Long lists of everything we want to accomplish. But here is what I have learned from working with hundreds of leaders: the ones who achieve the most do not have longer lists. They have shorter ones.

Having nearly 30 years of experience working in and with organizations of all sizes, I’ve noticed that there is a universal disconnect...

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak” Epictetus Those words are attributed to Epictetus, a...