Egoless leading involves letting go of your identity as a leader. Leader is a title, a noun. Leading is a verb, a set of actions. Those actions need to be guided by wisdom. When ego drops away you become open to a source of deep and never-ending wisdom.

Leadership experts, and top level leaders themselves, acknowledge the importance of listening, but many senior executives don’t listen well, long enough and often enough. The question is, why?

Generous listening happens when we seek to understand another person’s experience, without judgment. Empathy kicks in. Compassion follows. Trust grows. We begin to change from accepting diversity to becoming inclusive.

How you win even when you don’t is based on the story of my husband’s college football coach, Carm Cozza. It struck me as something my clients and readers need to remember, when squeezed by the pressure to put the numbers on the scoreboard, to win.

A fifteen year experiment reveals that coaching new managers delivers both immediate and long term business results, while developing the next generation of leaders.

Making tough leadership decisions is a lot easier when we allow the discomfort we feel to guide us. Unfortunately, we keep reverting to our logical brain to avoid discomfort. When we don’t find answers, we grow more frustrated and more uncomfortable. Stop the cycle by learning to use your discomfort as a decision making tool.

The shame of sexual assault belongs to the aggressor but lands on the victim. When the assaulted person understands how and why this happens, she can wash it away.

After watching this moving video about a moment of gratitude that changed Julio’s life, gratitude walking found my feet. As my heart smiled, I thought you might enjoy it too. If you’d like to worry less and enjoy life more, come and learn how to take a gratitude walk.