How to Avoid Hiring a Narcissist: A Toxic Hire Will Hurt Your Team and Your Leadership Credibility
Narcissists threaten organizational culture with traits such as entitlement, grandiosity, lack of empathy, and behavior that prioritizes…
The Executive Brain
A neuroscience lens, using the CARB model of social motivators, helps leaders understand how they can create…
The Business School Mindset Doesn’t Mind Physician Burnout
Even those of us with a meditation cushion and a gong app are likely to recoil when…
Unleash The Instigator Within (When Your Team or Your Organizational Culture Needs a Shake Up)
My first grade teacher at Little Flower Catholic Grade School told me I was an instigator. I…
Why Leaders Must Embrace Resistance
You have an innovative idea that will streamline the work, double the margin, improve quality and eliminate…
Physicians Must Lead. Here’s Why
Some docs consistently say “no thanks” to formal leadership roles. They prefer not to run for a…
Hit A Plateau? Three Ways to Shift Gears and Get Moving
My coaching client, a senior director in healthcare, told me she was surprisingly preoccupied and disappointed after…
A Critique of HBR’s Article: “You Can’t Fix Culture”
The Harvard Business Review magazine was on my desk, still in plastic: YOU CAN’T FIX CULTURE JUST…
Tenacity and References: Two Things Needed to Hire the Right Person
“It’s in the EQ/social behavior area where our candidate evaluations repeatedly fall short. It’s almost as if…