Last Sunday I found myself at an unlikely place. I spent the day at Texas Motor Speedway and got the chance to meet Kevin Harvick, Clint Bowyer, and Tony Stewart. …
The Value of Team Briefings
We have many communication options these days – phone calls, faxes, emails, text messages, and so on. You can even communicate with just a single emoji. Who hasn’t sent a …
Building It By Hand
I fondly remember the experience of constructing a rail line with a group of social cast-offs during two summer vacations. And in this concluding segment, I want to share with …
Leadership Requires Making It Permanent
In previous installments, I have been trying to challenge you to accept and use tension as a tool for establishing best practices. In addition, I have challenged you to use …
Leadership Requires Constant Evaluation
In the first installment of this series I drew a parallel between the tension needed to flex a straight piece of steel to create an oval train track and the …
Three Circles of Leadership
A few weeks ago I took a look at the ancient roots of strategic leadership. In case you missed that article, click here and you can get up to speed …
20 Fundamental Questions for Team Building
In my last post I shared 5 sports-themed principles of team building. In this post I would like to give you a practical tool to help you build a team, …
Teamwork Principles from Sports
Teams are all the rage today in business. Surely some of this comes from our love for sports and the beauty of seeing a group of people on the field …
What in the World?
Who do you trust? Who do you believe anymore? Ebola has come to the United States of America. Our President, the leader of the free world said it would …
Shared Leadership
It seems to me that the very meaning of leadership is someone that leads. So how could it be possible to share leadership? I am thinking shared leadership is “one …