People follow you because have to! A leader position is usually given to people because they have leadership potential. Most of the time when people enter a leadership position they do so because someone has granted authority to do so. The best leaders promote people into leadership based upon leadership potential and nothing else. A […]

Insights Into The 5 Levels of Leadership You Can Move Up A Level But You Never Leave The Previous One Behind You Are Not On The Same Level With Every Person The Higher You Go, The Easier It Is To Lead The Higher you, The More Time and Commitment Is Required To Win A Level […]

You Can Have A Leadership Plan For LIFE! It is well known that everything rises and falls on leadership. Because this is true, I personally have been on a learning journey that has taken me through 35+ years of leading nonprofits, strategic committees, teaching in foreign countries, 14 years of formal education, and a commitment […]

Investing In The Team Compounds Over Time Here is one of the greatest team builders in all sports, yet, you have probably never heard of him. Here is a list of his accomplishments: 40 consecutive basketball seasons with at least 20 wins 5 national championships Number one ranking in his region 33 years in […]

When You Are Winning Nothing Hurts! The Law of High Morale may ring a bell with you because the phrasing of the law was inspired by the words of Joe Namath who led the New York Jets to a Super Bowl victory in 1969. He understood that the exhilaration of winning could be so strong […]

INTERACTION FUELS ACTION! When Gordon Bethune took over Continental Airlines back in the 1990’s the company was a mess with its stock price at $3.25/share. They had gone through 10 leaders in 10 years. The airline arrival and departure was quite unpredictable. In his book From Worst to First CEO Bethune began a process of […]

The Difference Between Two Equally Talented Teams Is Leadership What is the key to success? Is it talent? Hard work? Technology? Efficiency? TO be successful a team will need all of these things. But it still needs something else to succeed. LEADERSHIP! The personnel on your team will determine the success of the team Vision […]

Shared Values Define A Team! Just as personal values influence and guide an individual’s behavior, organizational values influence the team’s behavior! Values can help a team to become more connected and more effective. Shared values like…. GLUE – When difficult times come – and they come for every team – values hold people together. If […]

Great Teams Have Great Depth! A great starter is not enough if a team desires to go to the next level of excellence. You have to great depth on the bench in order to win. John Wooden of UCLA fame stated, “Unselfishness is a trait I always insisted upon. I believe that every basketball team […]

The Team can make adjustments when it knows where it stands! Every game has its rules and its own definition of what it means to win. Some teams measure their success by points and others by profits. Others view success by the number of people they serve. No matter where you are in the game […]