Three levels of culture every leader misreads
Most culture work happens at the surface: the values poster, the handbook, the rollout. Culture itself gets built somewhere smaller, in the moments no one planned for.
Why the best leaders learn to turn the dial
Most leadership tensions show up as either/or, and most of us pick a side and call it a style. The best leaders know which dial to turn, and when.
What Your Unsolicited Qualifiers Are Telling You
A counselor called me ‘the king of unsolicited denials.’ Turns out, the things we deny and rationalize before anyone asks point to what we’re protecting.
What Is Creating This Behavior? A Self-Awareness Tool for Leaders
When a team is stuck, most leaders ask what is wrong with the person. The sharper question, and the one that starts with you, is what conditions are making the behavior likely.
What’s It Like to Be on the Other Side of You?
We grade ourselves on our intentions. Everyone we lead grades us on our impact. The gap between the two is where trust is won or lost, and most leaders never see it.
Below the Waterline: What Leaders Don’t Know About Their People
Tim Dittloff, a USCG-licensed merchant mariner and leadership coach, on what leaders miss when they only coexist with their teams, and why the crew that can’t talk on the water can’t talk in the building.
The Science Behind 5 Voices: What the Research Actually Shows
5 Voices rests on a measurement chain that runs back to the Big Five, the gold standard in academic personality psychology. Here is exactly how strong that evidence is, and where it stops.