Making The Most of Your Mistakes

I’ve written a couple of blogs on the topic of making mistakes. Perhaps because I’ve made so many, I feel like an “expert” on them? I’ve talked about how to plan for them, and more importantly, how they are an integral, perhaps even necessary part of the learning...

Leadership and the Success of Failure

“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.” James B. Conant Former President of Harvard University   I don’t know of anyone who isn’t afraid of failure at some level. That fear can span a wide variety of things, ranging from trying a...

It’s Time for Adaptive Leadership

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there………                                                                                 Will Rogers, American humorist The world has changed in some way since I started writing this. Urban legend...

Using Bench Strength to Bring Home the Trophy

It’s playoff time in hockey and basketball. The long season, extending over 80 games, is capped by 4 rounds of playoffs, with the eventual winners having to win 16 games by playing in another 20 to 28 games.  There are star players on each team but in the end the...