It takes courage to admit that a project is tanking. Even for big-shot movie stars. When Brad Pitt saw the first cut of his newly released film World War Z, the final third act of the movie was, in his words, “just atrocious” according a USA Today interview. What Pitt said next in the interview…
Authenticity
Stewardship – A Leadership Concept that Stands the Test of Time
Where were you twenty years ago? About twenty years ago, I was in a large hotel ballroom listening to Peter Block, a best-selling author and consultant who had just released a book called Stewardship. The most powerful lesson I learned that day didn’t come from Peter’s book. It came directly from him. After a glowing…
Trust & Transparency – May 2013 Frontline Festival
We leadership bloggers love to talk about trust and transparency. Karin Hurt of the Let’s Grow Leaders blog has selected these intertwining topics to feature for her May Frontline Festival. It’s a fantastic compilation from over twenty active leadership bloggers. Topics include trusting your team, trusting yourself (HUGELY important, and often overlooked), how to building…
Is Leadership Transparency Always the Best Policy?
I had a great exchange of ideas with Terry of the Wise Leaders blog about trust as a renewable resource. During our exchange, Terry shared this intriguing thought about the connection between trust and consistency in the leader-follower relationship: To build trust, followers look to their leader to be consistent [. . .] followers like…
Trust as a Renewable Resource
According to a trust infographic I published last week, trust is a scarce resource. But it doesn’t have to be. The stats in this infographic challenged me to think about how to look at trust not as a finite commodity, but rather a renewable resource – one that grows abundantly if given the proper nuturing….