As I recently drove from Yale to a friend’s home in CT, my mind wandered to conversation I had with a colleague. She had asked me a wonderful and provocative question: How is your leadership approach (eXpansive Leadership Model – XLM) better than all the others? After all, there are many leadership models and . . . → Read More: “How Is Your Leadership Approach Better?”
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 2 comments - (Comments are closed)  Apply the XLM, Commanding embrace ambiguity and paradox, Leadership, Leading managing paradox, Managing paradox, XLM The Super Bowl was SUPER! But I have to admit it made me think of… cycling and the Tour de France. I’m serious. The Tour de France is the Super Bowl of professional cycling, where 180 of the world’s best cyclists race an average of 100 miles per day for 21 days. To win . . . → Read More: Leadership Lessons from the Super Bowl and… Lance? Washington’s leadership lesson reminds us that the whitewater work environment requires leaders to manage “paradoxical tensions.” . . . → Read More: Ouch! Leaders Who Snap When They Should S-t-r-e-t-c-h 8 comments - (Comments are closed) Commanding embrace ambiguity and paradox, Leading managing paradox, Managing paradox, Paradox, paradoxical, paradoxical leadership It is not the strongest that survive, it is the most agile. Agility is the ability to respond flexibly to a rapidly changing environment. The essence of the eXpansive Leadership Model is agility (XLM) . . . → Read More: How eXpansive a Leader Are You? One comment - (Comments are closed) Commanding embrace ambiguity and paradox, expansive, Leadership general, Leading managing paradox, XLM Everyone cheered when Randy was promoted to lead the new business unit. Senior executives applauded his strategic, innovative and collaborative skills. His boss was pleased with his performance in the new position, until… Sales slipped and tough decisions needed to be made. That’s when troubling signs of Randy’s “lopsided leadership” surfaced. He was slow . . . → Read More: Crimes We Commit Against Our Careers! One comment - (Comments are closed) Apply the XLM, Coaching, Commanding embrace ambiguity and paradox, leadership career, Leadership general, Leading managing paradox, XLM |
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