Sitting in my office one day I noticed a student technician struggling with a repair at the workbench. I inquired about what was going on and he showed me a laptop he was working to open with a stripped screw he couldn’t remove. He was trying a typically recommended “trick”
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When I sit down to meet with prospective leaders on our team, I always want to understand what worries them most about stepping into a leadership role. “I’m not ready.” A common answer is that you feel existing leaders “have all the answers.” “I’m not ready,” you say. You’ve convinced
Recently, a friend was telling me about their struggling manager. They described tell-tale signs of poor leadership: micro-managing, failing to listen, inability to set or communicate clear expectations. As we discussed their supervisor’s leadership, they said: “Some people just don’t have it.” This surprised me, and I realized they
Geno Auriemma is, simply put, the most successful college basketball coach of all time. Here’s a brief look at the stat sheet highlights he has compiled in his 40-year career coaching the UConn Huskies Women’s Basketball program: Member of Basketball Hall of Fame (inducted in 2006) 3 Olympic Gold Medals
Like many new leaders, I was given an opportunity to lead because I was good at my job. The only problem was, my job at the time wasn’t leading. Leadership is a different job that requires a completely different set of skills than what I had learned up to that
One of a leader’s primary responsibilities is to enable their team to be successful. But how exactly do you impact your team’s success as a leader? On the surface, it might seem that a leader’s job is to “get the right people on the bus”. Perhaps by hiring exceptional candidates
Are leaders born or are they made? This is an essential question for organizations to answer. All teams need leaders, but the approach to finding these leaders will vary greatly depending on what you believe. An organization that believes leaders are born will invest heavily in recruiting top leadership talent
On Memorial Day, I honor the memory of Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy by sharing his story. Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy Murphy was raised on Long Island (in Patchogue). He went to college at Penn State and earned a dual bachelors in Political Science and Psychology. After college he accepted commission
36 years ago on January 28th, the ill-fated STS-51-L mission launched and, 73 seconds into flight, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart due to an O-ring seal failure in the right Solid Rocket Booster (SRB). 17 years later, nearly to the day, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart upon re-entry after
As a lover of all things space, I was super excited to watch a series of YouTube videos published by Tim Dodd (Everyday Astronaut) where he was given a tour of SpaceX’s StarBase facility in Boca Chica by none other than Elon Musk. While I got the expected doses of