Leaders should work hard to elicit the best from their team—but good leaders stop short of demanding perfection. Why? Because perfection is a myth, a unicorn—the ideal that drives and motivates, but can never truly be achieved. There’s no such thing as perfection—there’s only the genuine desire to keep improving, Read more
The WOW journey isn’t a straight climb towards leadership nirvana. WOW leaders aren’t perfect—nor should they be. Moments of DUD behavior or lapses in WOW judgment happen to everyone at one time or another—because people are, after all, human. But with the recent suicide of Robin Williams—someone I Read more
Superheroes have their villains, and WOW leaders have their own kind of nemesis–the DUD. Naturally, we revere the superhero and loathe the villain…but what would one be without the other? There’s no yin without the yang, no good without the bad. So when it comes to villains and DUDs, Read more
Imposters aren’t always easy to spot. They’re well practiced at disguising the ugliness behind their smiling outer masks. Imposters are DUDs who know how to hide their flaws, cover up their true intentions, and trick people into believing in them. The sad fact is, the world–and probably your Read more
Unfortunately, bad leadership is all too common in the corporate world. And when you can’t beat ’em, sometimes you have no choice but to join ’em. WOW leaders, or those aspiring to be WOWs, don’t want to align with DUDs, but there are times when the situation is forced upon them. When power Read more
We’re all professionals, right? Secure adults with business degrees, titles, and impressive resumes. And yet, that doesn’t always prevent jealousy in the workplace. Jealousy is a natural human reaction, although not one of our best. We can learn to control it, but we can’t always stop the ugly Read more