What Great Teams Do Great: Choice spaces

What Great Teams Do Great: Choice spaces

Susanna is a firefighter and willingly rushes into dangerous situations with her teammates to save others. Asim is a nurse, working on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. These examples of individual choices are dramatic, and they may seem more in line with our...
Are you bold?

Are you bold?

“Freedom lies in being bold,” said Robert Frost, and much can be said for the bold leader stepping up during trying times. Yet there are stunning examples of leadership boldness gone bad as well, like Volkswagen’s Martin Winterkorn and Turing...
That first-day-of-work feeling

That first-day-of-work feeling

Remember your first day on the job at a new organization? No history, no gossip, no intrigue, no politics, no unrealistic expectations, no cliques, no negativity. Can you go back and experience that now that you’ve been working in the same place for a while?...
Adjust your sails

Adjust your sails

It would have been pretty tempting to do some complaining aboard the Ruby May, the 39-foot sailboat that my beloved wife Launda Wheatley and I called home for two months. The Atlantic crossing brought our crew of four individuals wind, sunburn, rain and a fire onboard...
Stop Whining

Stop Whining

“Complaining is not a strategy” (Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder). This quote hits the mark and is now being featured in Startup Vitamins’ posters and other products. I’ve been known to do a bit of complaining from time to time. What separates legitimate griping from...