Having a well-designed Leadership Platform is the first step. But like any living document, it must be continually renewed to avoid stagnation. In Take Your Lead , this process of continual renewal and improvement is called the Leadership Enrichment LIFE-cycle (LEL-c) . The LEL-c is a solution to the "knowing-doing gap"—the common failure to take new leadership information and use it to improve performance. It provides a roadmap for transforming thinking into knowing, knowing

We've already distinguished "Real Leadership" from "Imaginary Leadership" (see Are You Leading? Uncovering Real Leadership! ). But how do you intentionally build the personal power required to be a real leader? The solution proposed in Take Your Lead  is to move beyond abstract ideas and construct a tangible Leadership Platform . A Leadership Platform is a framework that codifies what you understand, believe, and intend to do about leadership. It determines the difference bet

In our last post, we established the critical link between leadership, culture, and performance. But what kind of leadership truly drives a healthy culture? In Take Your Lead,  we contend that our encounters with genuine leaders are rare, despite the abundance of leadership literature available and the growth of the "leaders are readers" movement in the last century. This scarcity stems from a common confusion between two distinct classes of leaders: Leaders-in-Position (Enti

Inside every competitive landscape hides hidden potential. It's clearer than ever that Managers are armed with hundreds of business improvement methods, all aimed at achieving better organizational outcomes. Yet, many of these well-laid plans fall short. Why? Because even the most robust management concepts cannot compensate for a defensive or non-adaptive organizational culture. Our new book, Take Your Lead , establishes a critical cause-and-effect relationship that every le

In today’s fast-paced world, performance is often reduced to metrics and KPIs. But what if performance could be more than numbers? What...

Ping-pong tables and free snacks don’t build culture—people do. And in highperforming organizations, culture isn’t just a feel-good...

For decades, leadership has been defined by titles, authority, and hierarchy. But in a world of constant change, that model is no longer...