It sounds like something stitched on a pillow. It is also true. Why the person you become drives your results, and what the research says about it.

You can be capable, successful and trusted, and still notice the same challenge keeps finding you. That’s often where coaching begins: not with what you need to do, but with who you want to be.

Leading in VUCA times means charting a course while the ground keeps shifting. Here are seven conscious leadership traits, from honesty and compassion to humility and gratitude, that help your team trust you through volatility and uncertainty.

The F-word.

Just reading that word “failure” may elicit memories of plans gone wrong in the past. Or memories of hopes and dreams never realized due only to the fear of failing, not even of actually trying and then failing. Maybe that word makes you remember a business venture that never took off, or a relationship that failed, or perhaps a career move that did not work out as planned.

So you think you run a good meeting, eh? Have you asked anyone lately? I never told anyone their meetings were painful to sit through, but I might have hinted had they asked. In my corporate background of twenty years I have sat through a few good meetings but the vast majority were not so great. The best meetings were run by a very mindful and thoughtful executive, and these are how he ran them, and how I now run mine, and quite frankly how you should probably run yours…

As I type this article, the world is in the middle of a pandemic. All over the globe, families huddle together, waiting for the stay at home orders to cease. Single people are feeling more single than ever. Workers who feel unsafe, cannot take off work. Many more workers would gamble their health to be working to be able to buy more food. "Covid-19 divorce" is a trending phrase on Google. Domestic abuse rates are reportedly skyrocketing. Experts believe unemployment rates are somewhere in the range of 12-15 percent, (the worst on record since the Great Depression when unemployment reached 24 percent). A lot is going on but, but most of us have more free time than usual to think. Now is a time to think. Not to worry, but to think...