Chapter 7 – Agility: A Practice, Not a Personality
I began coaching in 2017. By late 2018, I was making steady progress when an experienced coach told me, “Most coaches give up within the first three years.” It made…
Chapter 6 – The Real Test of Emerging Leadership: Managing People Who Don’t Report to You
Many emerging leaders believe leadership begins when people start reporting to them. That is only half true. Real leadership often begins when you have to create outcomes through people who…
Chapter 5 – The Power of Choice: Why Smart Leaders Still Make Poor Decisions
A couple of years ago, I was speaking to a young entrepreneur, barely 29, who had managed to turn one fairly ordinary question into a full-time occupant of his head.…
Chapter 4 – Absolute Ownership: Where Blaming Starts, Progress Stops
Devdutt Pattanaik shares a beautiful story of Narad and Garuda that explains ownership better than many management books. One day, Narad asked Vishnu why Garuda’s image was placed before Vishnu…
Chapter 3 – TIME Prioritization: Are Your Leaders Busy, or Are They Building the Business?
It was mid-1993. I was on a software assignment in Berne, Switzerland — just three years into my career, still learning how international clients and unfamiliar cultures worked. I had…
Chapter 2 – Clarity First: The First Leadership Muscle for Emerging Leaders
The Strange Problem With Successful People People do not always get stuck because they lack talent, experience, contacts, money or motivation. Quite often, they have enough of all five. The…