What Blessings Might You Be Overlooking? Today is Election Day in America. By tomorrow (we hope), we’ll know who will be leading our country for the next four years. Not …

What Results Does Your Culture Produce? A version of this blog was posted in October 2015. In October 2024, Georgia and Tom Davis celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary and have invited …

Advice I Wish I’d Gotten Sooner I developed my entrepreneurial spirit leading a division of Tracy-Locke and later an office of Edelman Worldwide. These two firms prized outcomes over bureaucracy …

Who Are Your A, B & C Players? As a new football season approaches, coaches are assigning grades to players and finalizing depth charts. Top leaders should do likewise as strategic …

If Ever There Was a Time to Slow Down and Re-Calibrate It’s Now Every summer since 2017 I’ve shared reading recommendations because leaders are readers. Here are my picks for …

80th Anniversary of D-Day Thursday marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day. This post is an excerpt from Greg Bustin’s Decision Time: Inspiration, Insight & Wisdom from History’s Make-or-Break Moments.  That the Allied invasion …

Are You Getting Bad Behavior? Look in the Mirror. Accountability is one of the most important factors in determining the success of an individual, a team or an enterprise. It’s also …

Do We Have a Culture of Performance or a Culture of Excuses? By now you’ve probably learned that the upcoming total solar eclipse is pretty rare, occurring every four hundred years …

Where’s Your Accountability Chokepoint? What percentage of the work planned by you and your leaders actually gets done? Or gets done on time without moving deadlines? Or gets done right …

What’s Your Leadership Style? Whether you’re casting a vision, announcing a new initiative, reporting results or addressing a crisis, you’re selling an idea. Selling is part of the art of …

Unleash the Power of Accountability on Five Factors Signs indicate the year ahead will be challenging. Growth has slowed in some industries. Other industries are encountering headwinds. After navigating through …

With Christmas days away, this short story by an unknown author reminds us love is more powerful than judgment.  A church member who previously attended services regularly stopped going. After …

A Time to Work on Yourself We’re entering the year’s busiest season. As the holidays approach, things seem to speed up. The paradox to be found amid all of the …

The American celebration of Thanksgiving can be traced to Virginia in 1619. But it was the celebration in New England in the autumn of 1621 that established some of the …

In the spirit of Halloween, here are 10 scary questions to ask yourself and then answer to get the most out of life. A version of today’s post first appeared 10 …

To Unlock Success, Get Clarity Around 7 Vital Questions Many companies I work with are now preparing plans and budgets for next year. I’ve led more than 250 strategic planning sessions so …

Laughing with Leaders Football season is here, so I’ve dusted off some classic quotes where coaches deliver profound messages wrapped in a funny package. What does any of this have …

9 Vacation-Related Questions Reveal Hard Truths Early in my career – well before cell phones – I’d step away from my desk to meet with a colleague or client or …

Re-Examine, Re-Imagine and Re-Energize with These Books Every summer since 2017 I’ve shared reading recommendations because leaders are readers. Slow down enough to check out new releases and old favorites …

Countering Fear, Repression & Isolation The New Year had barely begun when Russian military forces launched their bold offensive against the enemy. Russian soldiers barreled across the border in an …