A colleague recently forwarded an article to me from the Financial Times online site FT.com entitled, “Stanford Research Finds Chief Executives Want Training,” written by Adam Palin, (August 1, 2013). I read the one page summary with increasing agitation. Highlights included: Nearly two-thirds of high level executives do not receive coaching or leadership advice from those outside their organizations. This despite 100% of executives involved in the research project “enjoy some type of coaching.” Huh?…

“Ac·count·abil·i·ty “Webster’s Definition: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions.  Many leaders approach “accountability” wrong! For instance: Many leaders see “accountability” as just a tool to make sure their workers are producing at the level they want them to produce. Many leaders use a number of exercises to bring this about: Dashboards, Accountability charts or graphs, even “accountability meetings.” Many leaders miss the fundamental and transformational point – high…

Note from the author: I wrote this a number of years ago - mostly as a journaling exercise to remember this experience. I wanted to share it now to hopefully inspire some of you who may be going through some tough times. You have what it takes to work through anything!It was 20 degrees with freezing rain pelting the streets. At almost 8,000 ft. high in the mountains of Colorado ice storms are extremely rare.…

Leadership requires a wide range of skills, understanding, and awareness. And it starts with an objective personal assessment of all of these.As we look to organizations, we do so with the understanding that in every organization there is a current “leadership lid.”  Nothing brings forward the current leadership’s lid as much as change does.Leadership is often made or broken by the trials of experiencing change. Leaders rarely acknowledge the toll that leading change takes on…