Psychometric “Tests”: A call to evidence or a call to action. Of the thousands of psychometric “tests” the LSAT (Law Schools Admission Council  www.lsac.org) test is one of the best and most accurate predictors of performance ever devised. The LSAT’s  mean validity is 0.37. Meaning, it can predict at the 0.37 level whether an applicant […]

Leaders: Trust is ALL! That’s a bold statement. “Leaders: Trust is all!” Can it be supported? Is there any trust in the statement “Leaders: Trust is all!”? Sometimes apparent truisms like this can best be explored by testing them in extremis. Can a person lead if people do not trust them? It appears to be […]

Leaders: Who has control, your habits or you? Superior leadership performance is influenced by many habits. The more constructive habits a leader has the higher their performance. The more destructive habits, the worse their performance. When a leader has performance impairing habits their performance can be so poor, they can do so much damage, that […]

Leadership Tip: Fail More, Fail Better, Fail Faster Almost all leaders try to avoid failure. Or should I say, all but the best leaders try to avoid failure. The best leaders I have coached shared a different approach. They act on the leadership tip: Fail More, Fail Better, Fail Faster. Surely that is the worst […]

8 Deadly Sins of Leadership You probably recall that there were 7 deadly sins. And you would be right, traditionally. Our modern day 7 were abbreviated from the Greek 8. If you know the 8 deadly sins of leadership and how to avoid them you can improve your leadership in one of the easiest ways […]

What is Coaching? It is a question most people don’t feel the need to ask. Why? Because they have a definition in their head, and assume that everyone shares the same definition. Cough… cough… we know what assumptions make of us. That can have undesired consequences. To be avoid being the proverbial ass, let’s ask: […]

The Leadership Tool You Ignore At Your Peril There is a force so powerful that if you harness it you can achieve more as a leader in a few months than others can in a life-time. What is that power? Culture! Culture is the leadership tool you ignore at your peril. The Power of Culture […]