Recovering Leader

LeaderTip: Leadership in Fallibility

We all make mistakes every day, and leaders are no exception. If you have high standards, you may wrestle with the temptation to deny or dwell on your errors. Feel free to visit, but don’t pitch a tent there—remind yourself that so many of history’s errors have led to tremendous achievements. Most mistakes bear gifts—a lesson, a key insight, a... Read more →

LeaderTip: High-Performing Leadership Teams

It’s not uncommon for an organization’s senior executives to call themselves the "Leadership Team." Yet frequently divisional self-interests drive their actions more so than teamwork—a lower-performing model for people at all levels of the enterprise. In contrast, members of high performing leadership teams watch out for each other, share resources and knowledge, trust each other, are brutally honest, embrace healthy... Read more →

Letting Go of Lonely Leadership

“It’s lonely at the top” is not the way of leadership. If that’s the case for you, the quality of your leadership, your life at work, and your P&L, would likely be enhanced with some work on changing how you relate to others. I’ve seen this play out in my executive coaching work with clients. Their successes add up to... Read more →

LeaderTip: Leading in Sync with Your Values

We are at our best when our work is well-aligned with our values, and leaders are no exception. Yet in the fray of day-to-day challenges, rarely do we stop to reflect on what we hold most important, and/or how that might have changed over the years. If you don’t take time to do that, you may miss an important insight,... Read more →

Ten Leader Types - Which are you? Your Boss?

Introducing Ten "LeaderTypes" from the Recovering Leader. From emails and web traffic, I’ve noticed a lot of interest in evaluating, assessing, and categorizing leaders. So you’ve challenged and inspired me to design my own, which I started several years ago. Since then, I’ve developed and revised my ten "LeaderTypes" based on more of my executive coaching work, interviewing many leaders... Read more →