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November ArticlesConfronting Institutional Cowardice: A Leader’s Duty Confronting Institutional Cowardice: A Leader’s Duty Transforming Toxic Workplaces 30 Fixes for Better Leadership A Roadmap for Building Culture WAKE UP A LEADERA newsletter on Substack to help you lead confidently, competently, and ethically—without becoming a jerk. Whether you’re a mid-level manager, an ambitious professional, or committed to personal growth, this newsletter is your leadership boost.
Purpose, Responsibility, and Balance Forget the Throne: Master the Art of Being a Kingmaker Building Accountability into Leadership The Power of Candor in Communication Cultivating a Gratitude Mindset as a Leader LEAD WITH HEART SERIESOPTIMIZE YOUR LEADERSHIP SERIESDefining Your Leadership Desire Scaling Your Leadership Impact Aligning Your Leadership with Organizational Goals Setting Meaningful Leadership Goals Identifying and Closing Leadership Gaps Developing Leadership Competency Models Building a Strategic Leadership Plan Reflecting on Leadership Successes and Setbacks KARL BIMSHAS WRITESIn my latest newsletter, you’ll find unapologetic opinions, prose, creative experiments, and the occasional rant that are different from my usual business writing. This is less about leadership or business tips and more about capturing ideas before they’re “polished,” testing thoughts and recapturing joy. VIDEOREFLECTIONS ON LEADERSHIP PODCASTLEADERSHIP TOOLSCrafting Your Leadership Path: A Practical Guide to Defining Your Impact 4 Ways to tell if you’ll be any good as a leader PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT
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Reflections on Leadership The Problems We Keep Trying to Solve Leadership Drift This Week The Problems We Keep Trying to Solve Organizations are busy. Leaders make decisions, employees work hard, and problems receive attention. Yet important priorities keep getting crowded out. Capable people become frustrated. The same problems return, even after considerable effort to resolve them. When this happens, the instinct is to work harder, introduce another process, or ask people to do better....
Reflections on Leadership The Price of Feeling Special Leadership Drift This Week The Price of Feeling Special When we choose someone to lead us, we must ask: What are we willing to excuse in a leader because we believe that leader will do something for us? The question shifts our attention from the person we elect to the person doing the electing. It asks us to examine not only a leader's character, but our own. Have we become so invested in what someone promises us that we are willing to...
Reflections on Leadership What Problem Are We Trying to Solve? Leadership Drift This Week What Problem Are We Trying to Solve? An organization can spend considerable time and money correcting employees while overlooking the conditions that make their jobs harder than they need to be. It can demand accountability from people while letting leaders avoid it. It can promote values that its own decisions contradict. The activity looks like improvement. The underlying problem remains. Sometimes the...