Do you wear a mask for physical or psychological safety? Authentic leadership is about being genuine in your actions. Halloween and the idea of donning a costume to be someone you are not brings to mind the concept of authentic leadership. While it is fun to dress up for Halloween and wear a mask, I wonder how many of us really get to be our authentic selves at work? Do you have to wear a mask to work each day to fit in with your corporate culture or can you be your true self?

An investment in the team provides the greatest ROI for a small investment. Choosing how to spend limited resources to create the greatest leverage is the job of every business leader.

Learn how one team turned an IT outage into an amazing growth opportunity. Most teams are quick to accept threats for what they are, in this case the team turned the threat on its head and created an amazing opportunity. Learn how your organization can reframe threats as opportunities from this story.

Turtles while know for being sure and steady make progress when they stick their necks out.

Two simple life hacks to reduce personal stress. CONTROL, ATL, DELETE and shutting down the background apps that are draining energy.

Executive coaching should model the changes expected of the coachee. By shifting to an unconventional venue, the coachee can feel liberated and begin to make the changes required to improve performance.

A greeting by a tech influencer warned me about the real threat of the Covid 19 virus back on January 7, 2020.

Making work from home work for your organization.

I am an early adopter of technology. However, I wanted longer that I usually do to embrace electric vehicle technology. In hindsight, I question what took me so long.

There is a big difference between team building and team bonding. Adam Cannavo highlights the difference and provides some advice for planning your next offsite.

Brian Formato shares one of the best failure stories ever. He’s the founder and principal at Groove Management, a human capital consulting firm focusing on organizational and talent development. He also created LeaderSurf, a professional development program that teaches leadership through surfing.

As a senior executive are you carrying too much of the burden for your organization on your shoulders?

Meetings are the death of work productivity.  According to various sources there are 25 million meetings per day in the United States.  That amounts to $37 billion in annual productivity lost as a result of meetings.  Just yesterday I heard another example of a senior team in a large publicly traded company holding a three-hour meeting to plan for a full day meeting.  The tyranny must end.  

In business we often talk about the iceberg theory and the fact that more lies beneath the surface, but to witness it firsthand and to take away new learnings in Iceland was even more impressive.

Organization design is dictated by market conditions and expands and contracts much like an accordion based on the financial landscape.

Green Syn-energy is a unique approach to solar farm grounds maintenance employed by O2/EMC and Sun Raised Farms.  Sheep are raised on the solar farm and they maintain the grounds.

Design choices are made daily and many of them lead to poor efficiency and waste.  While redesigning websites I learned an important lesson about UX.

More companies need to take the time to get leadership teams out of the office.  A corporate retreat is an excellent opportunity for a team to bond and to learn together.  Groove Management's sister company LeaderSurf recently launched customized corporate retreats leveraging the success of the LeaderSurf leadership development program.

Excerpt of keynote address to the SCTE on disruption, innovation, change and resilience.

Capture participant learnings with this simple workshop ending activity.