All who wander are not lost…

Join me on this wonderful journey called life. Enjoy a random collection of insights, ideas, and experiences. 

  • Reflecting on Leadership Philosophy and my Learning Journey

    In the last year I have had a number of experiences where I have been asked to share how I lead, my leadership style, or my leadership philosophy. I have always struggled to put a label on my approach; I am not sure I have a particular leadership philosophy or style.  Leadership is situational.  As leaders we Read more

  • Art of Asking Smarter Questions

    As a leader, one of the practices I try to follow is using questions to create a safe environment that encourages the sharing of ideas, candid feedback, shared learning, creative thinking, and innovation.  Can’t say I am world class at practicing the art, but it is something I reflect on regularly… When we ask questions – Read more

  • HBR Article – Why the most productive people don’t always make the best leaders.

    This Article from HBR identifies critical competencies new leaders require to be successful when jumping from individual contributor to leader. It is also a good guide for existing leaders who are developing high potentials for their first formal leadership role as well as a reminder of the basic skills for all leaders – regardless of Read more

  • “But” and “However” are Candid Debate Buzzkillers

    I think we can all agree that respectful yet candid debate is critical for high quality decision making as well as in creating robust strategy and plans. As leaders and participants in these discussions we can quickly shut down debate around a topic by using a couple simple phrases when responding to others ideas. The phrases “Yes, Read more

  • Are Best Practices Best Fit?

    My reflection for the day:  Blindly following best practices without applying critical thinking can result in practices being proposed, developed, and deployed that do not address the true “problem to solve” in the current environment.   When we rely on best practice are we simply looking for the easy button?  Are we avoiding the hard work of critical Read more

  • Ask for Advice AND Be Prepared to Receive It

    (image courtesy DALL-E) Most of the time when we ask for feedback, what we are really looking for is ADVICE on what we could do better. As such, we should specifically ask for forward looking ADVICE, not backward facing FEEDBACK….So, Stop Asking for Feedback (article from HBR) Why is feedback so ineffective? The main reason Read more

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