I know. I know. What I talk about in this video episode will sound crazy at first. But the next time you face a ranting stakeholder, I share one thing to avoid and one thing…
Have a decision to make, whether on your projects, about your team, maybe outside of work? There are some predictable reasons why we don’t make better decisions. I’m giving a keynote today in Anaheim, California…
The Science of Meetings We too easily tolerate bad meetings. We begin to settle. We eventually resign ourselves to the fact that meetings are a necessary evil that will never change. We don’t drift towards...
Do Your Meetings Suck? When you think of meetings, what thoughts come to mind? Words like productivity, efficiency, and great use of time isn’t what I normally hear. But if you look over your last...
How do you deal with endings? This was a week of endings for me. We moved my dad into assisted living. He’s excited about the change. For anyone who has had to go through this…
I was never a proponent of throwing one of our young kids into the deep end and saying, “OK, swim!” But could it be that the best way to learn how to lead is to,…
How to Create Better Outcomes This Year One of the most powerful ideas I’ve learned in the last year is the relationship between habits and outcomes. If you’re not happy with your outcomes—look to your...
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” Though the Christmas songs may say that, your experience as we end the year may not exactly line up with the sentiment. In this short video, I…
Speaking Up When It’s Risky How do you speak truth to power? In episode 236 we talked with Harvard’s Amy Edmondson, who made the evidence-based case for how important it is to foster psychologically safe…
What I Taught Today The last time you said “I love meetings!” was probably, when? Never? Hah! To the contrary, meetings seem like an enormous waste of time in too many situations, right? I recently…