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...

Reflections on Leadership Accountability Isn’t a Threat Leadership Drift This Week Accountability Isn’t a Threat When performance slips, deadlines are missed, commitments are broken, or people fail to do what they should, someone eventually says, “We need to start holding people accountable.” A phrase that sounds less like leadership and more like a threat. That bothers me because when done right, accountability is one of the healthiest things leaders can create. Unfortunately, we have turned...