Reminiscent of the Identity vs. Role leadership poster, David Sandler reminds us that we are safe inside our personal castle into which no one can enter without our permission. Too many people make no distinction between their “inside world” –… Read More ›
When true leaders find themselves in pain, they don’t look around like a victim (see The Drama Triangle poster) to see who they might blame for the plight in which they find himself/herself. Instead a leader seeks to determine what… Read More ›
Once a leader acknowledges how believably s/he can lie to himself/herself, there grows a new appreciation of the input from others in helping the leader see his/her own blind spots. The younger leader oftentimes isn’t sure s/he has any blind… Read More ›
Politically correct or not the leader understands that laziness occurs in more places than just the dictionary. The leader learns to spot it in others and catches it quickly when s/he senses it making inroads into his/her own life. Most… Read More ›
I remember a leadership retreat I attended where every participant went off by himself/herself in the afternoon to a place in the building where s/he could see no one and no one could see him/her for three hours. One of… Read More ›
This staple of management theory has stood the test of time. “If everyone’s responsible for everything . . . then no one’s responsible for anything.” Accountability is only possible when there is singularity of ownership around every project. The movement… Read More ›
When comparing yourself to another, be aware of two common traps. First, seldom are you comparing “apples to apples.” Most of the time you are comparing what you know to be true about yourself to the other person’s “Social Mask.” … Read More ›
The classic marriage dysfunction is when one spouse or the other says, “I shouldn’t have to tell him/her what I want. If s/he loved me, they’d know.” This same dysfunction impacts the leader too. “My work should speak for itself. … Read More ›
The profundity of this poster is found in its simplicity. Of course one can’t solve something they refuse to acknowledge. Does that really merit being made into a poster? In my Executive Coaching, I’ve discovered that approximately 85-90% of solving… Read More ›
Given to us by Dr. Karpman, the Drama Triangle promises to diagram any dysfunctional relationship. Every dysfunctional relationship has a Persecutor, a Victim and a Rescuer. That doesn’t mean it takes three people to have a dysfunctional relationship. I find… Read More ›
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