Necessary Endings to Liberate Organizations
The first boundary a leader brings to bring simplicity is a boundary of necessary endings. Necessary endings. And what a necessary ending basically is, is when the leader realizes that the worst thing...
View ArticleMaking the Hard Decision to Stop What Isn’t Working
The second scenario is the branches that are sick and they’re not going to get well. You know, I live in California and I watch the gardeners and they do all this stuff, they water the plants if its...
View ArticleLeaders Create Focus Which Leads to Brilliant Simplicity
You can have a lot of projects going at once, but your mind can actually, your brain actually, not even your mind, your brain, the physiology of it, can only attend and focus to one thing at a time....
View ArticleDo Your People Trust You?
If you’re going to have influence that goes past yourself, then it’s pretty good to have some influence. Remember Steve Martin when he said, “How to get a million dollars and don’t pay taxes. First get...
View ArticleLeaders Jump First
You know, leaders, as long as leaders have strength, strength with authority as Andy said and expertise and talent and all that. One of the most powerful ways that leaders have strength that people...
View ArticleGreat Leaders Cultivate Healthy Relationships
It’s very simple, but your brains work. They basically run on three things, oxygen, glucose and relationship. The simplicity of relationship. You’ve got to breathe, you need oxygen. You’ve got to eat,...
View ArticleThe Art of Pruning to Cultivate Excellence
How many of your hoarders? Raise your hand if you’re a hoarder. Okay, you know we got a gazillion people and like two people raise their hand. You know why only a couple of you raised your hands?...
View ArticleThe Four Corners of Leadership
Dr. Cloud: Now, you know you’re in trouble because they called in the shrink. But actually this is a benefit for you because I know all of you came with somebody that you work with and know well. So, I...
View ArticleDr. Henry Cloud: Building “Four Corner” Teams
What I try to do with the four corners is to give leaders a map. You can look at this little map, corners one, two, three and four, at any moment during the day and ask yourself, “Where am I?” or,...
View ArticleDeveloping Your Capacity for Overcoming Challenges
Whenever a human is under threat in some way, what’s going to happen is the amygdala, it’s a part of the brain, all this brain stuff gets in here, where it starts shooting into, it pulls in all these...
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