Reflections on Leadership Who Says You’re Ready to Lead? Leadership Drift This Week Who Says You’re Ready to Lead? I recently saw a post about the signs that you’re not ready to lead (yet). It offered a familiar list of skills aspiring leaders should develop: making decisions with incomplete information, accepting and giving difficult feedback, delegating, managing conflict, and overcoming the need for approval. Most of the advice was reasonable, but I disliked the underlying premise. Who...

Reflections on Leadership When Feelings Start Making Leadership Decisions Leadership Drift This Week When Feelings Start Making Leadership Decisions Leadership gets harder when you let what's happening inside you determine what happens around you. You put off a difficult conversation you don't want to have. You aren't sure which decision to make, so you keep gathering information. You worry about how an idea will be received, so you keep refining it. You get frustrated that the same problem...

Hi Reader, What are the biggest leadership problems organizations are dealing with right now? Karl Bimshas Consulting is conducting The Leadership Problems Pulse: What’s Getting in the Way? to find out. We're asking executives, business owners, managers, HR professionals, consultants, and other organizational leaders to assess 30 leadership conditions based on what they're actually seeing in their organizations. It takes about 5–7 minutes to complete. The study focuses on what is happening...