


Why The Highest Level Of Strength — Craft-Level Mastery — Requires Apprenticeship
People used to work their way up from apprentices to journeymen to master craftsmen. This involved seven-year apprenticeships as indentured servants living, eating and working alongside master craftsmen and their families. While some of that is way out of date, some...
Why Exxon’s New CFO Should Fail, But Won’t
40% of new leaders fail in their first 18 months. Witness Exxon’s new CFO, Kathryn Mikells who lasted less than 15 months at two of her last four companies. Further, she’s got all sorts of flashing red warning lights at Exxon. For her, it’s a new company in a new...
Applying The Current Best Thinking Framework To Your Own Career Development
If you are the best you can be, the only way to go is down. Couple that with former Stanford Business School dean, Robert Joss’s insight that only 20% of leaders have the confidence required to be open to help and the only possible conclusion is that we’re all works...
How To Gain Leadership Experience Without Experience
While artistic and scientific leaders can build strengths on their own for the most part, interpersonal leaders’ essential ability to interconnect can be built only by doing it. Strengths are made up of innate talents, learned knowledge, and practice-honed skills....