Have you ever known someone who was terrific at starting projects but terrible at finishing them?  Sure you have.  We all have people in our lives who do this.  They may be a family member, a colleague, or a member of a team we lead.  They start project after project, then for some reason, they […]

Over the last few weeks we’ve been discussing the process leaders go through each time they need to get something done.  They dream, plan, and start, but then the longest part of the process (and often the least popular by non-leaders) begins and they work!  Leaders roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty […]

Over the last few weeks we’ve been discussing the steps a leader takes to get things done.  They begin with dreaming so that the destination they work toward is large enough and mission-oriented enough so as to be worth the effort they will expend.  Next, they move on to planning so that the results will […]

In the last blog I talked about how one of the major activities a leader does is dream.  Without dreaming, the work will become stale, the mission blurry, and the organization limp.  A leader must stay in the creative stage and continue to dream about what could be.  This kind of future focus will make […]

With this post I want to start a new series which will take a good long look at what leaders actually do.  Not what they talk about or what they tell others to do, but what they actually do, because, as I have trumpeted in past writings, behavior and actions matter.  If someone wants to […]