Dream Team: The Confident Leader  “Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.” ― Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us When we unleash our people to experiment with their creativity, amazing things happen.  The confident leader lets others do things and get the credit for it. Essentially it’s saying, “I […]

Dream Team: Organizational Health In Patrick Lencioni’s organizational leadership book The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business, he talks about the importance of assembling and maintaining a cohesive leadership team. By “cohesive” he’s not talking about surrounding yourself with yes-men and clones. Paradoxically, cohesive looks more like hiring people who are diverse, […]

Dream Team: Some Assembly Required It’s rare to assemble a dream team. It’s even more uncommon to retain it for any length of time. The median tenure for workers in the prime of their career is currently 3.2 years. When building the core of your organization, it’s critical to stack the team with leaders you […]