Category: Leading Self

Remember the last time you sat down with someone who made you feel uncomfortable? In general, most, including myself, try to avoid these interactions and prefer the company of...

Some take their word more seriously than others.  Some think this is about telling the truth or lying.  But it is much more than that.   Some are careful...

He introduced me to his colleague as “one of the leaders in his industry.”Later in private he told me what a “great” person his colleague is.    Three months...

Project Management practitioners call them lessons learned. These are lessons from things gone right and things gone not so right on the project. It is easy to talk about...

Sometimes difficulty in dealing with others comes from within.  A very simple example we all have probably experienced.  As teenagers, almost everyone has made an unreasonable request to a...

The mind on auto pilot Posted by ammarmango on February 28, 2013 Do you think too much? most people do and are not aware of it.  I know I sometimes do.  More...

A manager must have conviction in his /her mission, objectives, values, and ways.  Conviction can be confused with poor management behaviors, and here are examples: – Conviction is not...

A manager must have conviction in his mission, objectives, values, and ways. – Conviction is not about being rigid, or stubborn.  On the contrary.  Conviction means the belief in...

– A group of people surrounding the manager, usually subordinates and suppliers, who become part of the scene around the manager.  I have seen managers with different types of...

We always get clues from others about how we come across.  When the input is consistently repeated by different people under different circumstances, then that input becomes an important...