by Jonathan | Oct 17, 2018 | Leadership
In American football, you can feel when there is a momentum shift. Some form of invisible energy moves between the teams throughout the game. It becomes pronounced at times, and at other times it seems to be in the background. I believe the concept of momentum is not...
by Jonathan | Oct 16, 2018 | Leadership
Speak last. It took me several years to understand this phrase in a leadership context. When I would speak first, in a meeting perhaps, I would tend to hear iterations of what I just said echo back to me from some of the participants. Imagine screaming in a cave. In...
by Jonathan | Oct 15, 2018 | Leadership
She was doing a poor job fighting back the tears and this made me very uncomfortable. Tears always do, either theirs or mine. The conversation didn’t start off heavy, but we wandered through the woods a bit. What became apparent as we talked was that the tears...
by Jonathan | Oct 12, 2018 | Leadership
“How many of you know whether your organization is truly advancing, treading water, or losing ground?” I asked that question at a presentation I gave a few weeks back on the future of leadership. Not one hand went up. If you ever watched sport, then you...
by Jonathan | Oct 11, 2018 | Leadership
It broke and I expected it to break. It wasn’t always this way. I used to think, for whatever reason, that if I were simply smart enough and diligent enough and careful enough and enough-enough that things wouldn’t break. The equipment wouldn’t...
by Jonathan | Oct 10, 2018 | Leadership
The difference between “done” and “done-done” is usually that last five percent. That last five percent of a project. The last couple of weeks of the semester. The punch list. You know when you have reached “done” when you feel the...
