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How To Handle Direct Reports That Wanted Your New Job

Your direct reports don’t get to choose whether or not you’re going to be the boss. But they do get to choose whether they want you as their boss. If they have the strengths you need and fit with the culture you’re trying to build and want to be part of the team,...

Why Overcoming Inertia Takes Two Whys

Leadership Skills, Relationships

No one changes until they believe they must change, can envision themselves in a better future and know how they can be part of the solution and way forward. This starts with their understanding: 1) Why they can’t keep doing what they have been doing the way they have...

How NFL Concussion Fixes Were Delayed By Bennet Omalu’s Failure To Ask Who Cares Most

BRAVE Leadership, Relationships

Dr. Bennet Omalu is a heroic scientific leader. However, from a change management perspective, he spent years focused on the wrong people instead of those who care most. In 2002, Omalu discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) during an autopsy of former...

The Fundamental Difference Between Leading And Managing: Influence Versus Direction

Approach, BRAVE Leadership, Relationships

Leaders influence. Managers direct. While it may not be that black and white, leaders generally do focus on what matters and why as managers focus on how. Both use different forms of influence and direction at different times. But leaders have a bias to influencing by...

Executive Onboarding From A Subordinate’s Perspective

Executive Onboarding, Relationships

Everything communicates – everything a new leader says and does and doesn’t say and doesn’t do. Most new leaders get that. But many miss the unintended consequences of what they do and say and don’t do and don’t say on people they think are not...

Team Geographically Dispersed? Leverage All Senses To Keep Connected.

BRAVE Leadership, Relationships

The good news about the technology revolution is that people can work wherever and whenever they want. The bad news is that that has led to the dispersion of teams across geographies and time zones. Dispersion inevitably leads to communication and emotional...