Cultivate Courage

Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, died earlier this year. He wrote the bestseller Only the Paranoid Survive, a book that impacted me as a young leader. Known as brash, but brilliant, Grove was remembered for having courage, that character trait representing a willingness to confront danger or uncertainty. NPR’s tribute to his life highlights […]

Leaders: Lamenting or Inventing

My colleague Chris Cavanaugh recently made the observation that people find themselves in one of two groups these days: lamenting or inventing.
Many of us are looking backwards and lamenting. We grieve what has been taken away, either from us personally, or someone we know:
* our retirement account
* our job
* our house
* our club membership
* our assumptions about the way life works
* our confidence that we know what we are doing