Leadership Perspectives

leadership in 2015

5 rules for more achievable New Year’s resolutions

Every year around now the time honored topics of New Year’s Resolutions and whether or not to make them comes up. People debate the merits of these oft-made, and nearly as oft-broken, promises to ourselves and, increasingly, decide just to skip the whole business altogether. But I’m an advocate of the much maligned New Year’s […]

Want success in 2014? Start with a clear intention.

In my final post of 2013, I offered four key actions that leaders could take to be more effective and happy with their performance in 2014.  The first was to set a clear intention. Many of us have a vague – and often an acute – sense of what we need to change, how we […]

Power of the mastermind. Part 2, Selecting members

In a previous post, I talked about the concept of the Mastermind.  Masterminds are indeed powerful, but the right group of members is essential to achieve the synergy, commitment, and candor that makes great masterminds so effective. Similar goals.  Years ago, without asking the rest of the group, a member brought a guest to a […]

Power of the mastermind. Part 1

A small group of colleagues and I meet on a monthly basis to talk about our businesses, share advice, set goals, and hold one-another accountable.  We represent different industries but we all have things in common; we own businesses and we want to continue to grow those businesses in alignment with our values. To this […]