Strong Point’s Leadership Rule #4: Push Courage I can’t lay claim to the phrase “Push Courage.” It comes from my own life, from my sister-in-law who espouses this mantra every time she hears a hint of uncertainty or timidity in my voice or anyone else’s. My sister-in-law Christina, knows a lot about courage. She has a rare bone disease that somehow caused her bones to fracture and break every time they should have been expanding and growing. Her health and life were so…

Show me a person you trust to draft the baseline strat plan for the division, or whip up a piece of effective code that shows data in a way you can’t currently see it, or frame an important idea into a PowerPoint presentation that simplifies the idea into a set of consumable thoughts and visuals; and I’ll show you a person who’s worked really, really hard at doing just that, hundreds, if not thousands, of times before. Skill is fundamental to effective leadership. Skill is developed through…

A June 2015 McKinsey Quarterly Report written by Claudio Feser, Fernanda Mayol, and Ramesh Srinivasan called Decoding Leadership: What Really Matters; lists “Being Supportive” as the number one, and one of the four most important Leadership Behaviors that accounts for 89% of Leadership Effectiveness. The McKinsey Quarterly says this of Leaders who support and care for others: “Leaders who are supportive understand and sense how other people feel. By showing authenticity and a sincere…

I recently read an article about openness being a key indicator of success. I’m a fan of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) and the recent read made me go back and look at some of the HBR articles I’ve saved. I save HBR, Business Insider and other work-centered articles for the same reason I save and keep books. They comfort me, they reinforce the idea that others share and articulate my same beliefs. They remind me to read others’ work and to rest in the knowledge that I can learn…

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