Recovering Leader

Monday’s LeaderTip: Is Risk Managing You?

Leadership requires venturing into new and thus risky territory. Yet being bold and daring is increasingly absent from the work of many leaders and professionals, particularly during tougher times. If your leadership decisions are based too heavily on the need to “manage risk,” then risk is actually managing you. Everyone fails from time to time. If that’s the worst case,... Read more →

"The Recovering Leader" Invites You To Contribute Articles / Essays / Quotes / Ideas on Leadership

An open invitation to readers of the Recovering Leader . . . Greetings! I realized recently that I've posted 320 pieces on leadership here, all of which I myself wrote, and that needs to change. With HR World's endorsement of this blog, and having had the recent positive experience of posting a piece about the ideas of Barbara Braham, I... Read more →

Executive Coach Braham Says Setting Smarter Priorities Means Distinguishing Between Output and Outcome

"Given the daily tsunami of to-do’s, hopes, and expectations at work, leaders and professionals need to have a good handle on the distinction between output and outcome,” according to fellow Executive Coach Barbara Braham, PhD. I have to say this is very insightful, and agree wholeheartedly. In my own practice as an executive coach, I’ve seen that stronger achievers use... Read more →

Monday LeaderTip: Making More Deliberate Choices

Humans are creatures of habit yet wonderfully adaptive, and leaders are no exception. Gradually over time these traits can lead us to routines and professional situations that reflect evolution rather than intention. Take an inventory of your leadership habits from time to time—identifying those that serve you well, and those that make you less effective. As you consider the latter,... Read more →

Monday’s LeaderTip: Economical Communication

Leaders receive a tremendous number of communications daily, many of which are “noise.” Some are worse than others about generating low-value meetings, emails / texts, and voicemails. It all piles up; yet hidden in all that noise is the information you need to assess, decide, and act. Such useful data will remain elusive unless deliberate ground rules are set. Collaborate... Read more →

Challenge to Presidential Campaigns: Tell Us About Your White House Dream Team

A leader's key hiring choices directly impact their potential to achieve greatness. So, Senators McCain and Obama: set aside the VP question for now, and tell us in advance who’s going to be on your White House dream team. We elect the President/Vice President, and yet we actually get a combination platter—party of two, plus those they hire for the... Read more →

Check out "HR WORLD" for a great list of Leadership Blogs

Many thanks to Paul Ogle for HR World's endorsement of "Recovering Leader." More importantly, though, check out their article dated today, entitled: The Top 100 Management and Leadership Blogs That All Managers Should Bookmark. Super relevant and helpful to anyone in the Leadership field, and for leaders, too. David Peck Read more →

Monday’s LeaderTip: Relating and Results

One’s ability to form caring relationships in the workplace is highly correlated with business results. While a mountain of hard data led to this conclusion, many consider warmth, approachability, empathy, and personal accountability to be the “soft stuff.” Such thinking, and the behavior that goes with it, only gets you to the table—it doesn’t keep you there (as Marshall Goldsmith... Read more →

Obama's Win: Leadership Means Making a Caring Connection

In these troubled times, the candidate who can maintain a caring connection with voters, regardless of how nasty the run up to the election may be, will have the advantage. By "caring connection," I mean communicating with authentic warmth and approachability, empathy for the worries and struggles of people worldwide, appreciation for the successes of others, genuineness, and the ability... Read more →

Monday’s LeaderTip: Time for Feelings

We all have less than positive feelings at times, and leaders are no exception. While it can be tempting to put aside your anger, fear, or sadness “in order to get the job done,” doing so doesn’t make them disappear. Deny them, and they tend to come forth indirectly—and others detect them anyway. It’s more effective to carve out time... Read more →