'Starting a new job with management responsibilities?  It can be overwhelming.  The good news is there are plenty of tools to help you be successful in your new management role.  Here are a few of my favorites: T he American Management Association – The AMA is a great source for leadership and management training and development.  MORE >>

'Last Friday I attended a presentation by Charles Jacobs, author of Management Rewired.  It was a fantastic talk about how our brains work, and particularly how motivation works (or doesn’t) in the workplace.  Let’s talk about motivation for a minute and think about the conventional wisdom on how to improve employee performance.  Got it? MORE >>

'I recently read The Character-Based Leader – a great book written by a number of the members of the Lead Change Group.  The Character-Based Leader is not a leadership book in the traditional sense of one or two people explaining a philosophy of leadership.  But above all else this book inspired me to keep my focus on doing my best every day.  MORE >>

'Last Thursday I got a chance to hear Sheryl Sandberg speak at an event put on by The Commonwealth Institute.  Overall I wasn’t surprised by much of the content since I’d already read the book ( here’s my review of Lean In ).  But at one point Sheryl made a comment that I hadn’t heard before. The bottom line?  MORE >>

Have you ever been driving on a highway and missed your exit?  There’s a moment of panic and indecision as you see the sign and wonder if that’s where you should get off.  Maybe another car is blocking you and you can’t move over fast enough.  Leadership decisions happen at speed. There are always more ways to get there. MORE >>