Burnout
Multitasking or thrashing? 5 things to help you focus.
Feeling overwhelmed? Multitasking will make it worse because doing many things at once leads to thrashing. Do these five things instead.
Leadership
Leadership in a Mexican airport parking lot
A protest shut down an airport. Calm, effective leadership got people where they needed to go. Some observations on what went right.
Leadership
A pebble in your shoe
Force-fitting someone into a project is like putting a pebble in your shoe. Instead, let them off the hook and focus on the people excited to be included.
Leadership
People will work with you, against you, or around you
Your team will learn to work with you, work around you, or work against you. As a leader, your behavior drives which they choose.
Leadership
Leaders don’t always know what they think they know
With the “illusion of knowledge,” people feel they understand things they actually have little knowledge of. This destroys good decision making by leaders.
Leadership
Great leaders embrace healthy tension
Great leaders don’t fear tension or conflict. They understand the difference between healthy tension and destructive conflict, and they harness its energy in positive ways. Healthy tension exists in that place where you’re pushing the envelope while keeping control. It can exist when one or more positive things may conflict Read more
Leadership
Fix your leadership, not your employees
There’s apparently been a spike in employees taking mental health leave. I can believe it. Work culture has gotten more and more toxic and dehumanizing over the past decade. I’ve experienced it myself, and I’ve heard plenty of anecdotal evidence from the hundreds of clients I’ve coached over the past Read more
Leadership
How the nuance loop kills problem-solving
A nuance loop is when people argue about some irrelevant nuance instead of taking productive action. Here are five ways nuance loops form.
Courage
Leading with purpose—podcast interview
Leading with purpose is a key topic in Peter’s podcast appearance on the Beyond Your Why podcast. Listen here.
Leadership
People follow the leader. Act like one.
Data shows that employees will follow the leader’s action no matter what the leader says. Leaders who don’t get this end up frustrated.