Leadership Perspectives

Greatness isn’t born. It’s grown.

Ever dream of being a virtuoso singer, having a zero-handicap golf stroke, or cooking like a world class chef? Not in your cards?  You just don’t have the natural talent, you say? Not so fast.  According to a burgeoning abundance of literature on the topic of talent and performance improvement, talent has, well, little to […]

Leadership and music: Being versus doing

In my last post, I talked about the need for leaders to get comfortable with ambiguity.  One of the reasons that leaders are often so uncomfortable with ambiguity is that they focus so much on doing, instead of focusing on being. Being is the character, the beliefs, the YOU that you bring to leadership.  But […]