I am here today with the 2nd Leadership lesson from the first American Pope Leo XIV, which is: Lead with Empathy vs. the Ivory Tower. This is a dichotomy of leadership.  As a leader, you have to be on top and in front, casting vision and leading your people far into the horizon.  While that’s…

I’m still in amazement of the first American Pope.  In fact, I just recorded a podcast episode with a little more backstory to put some context on my amazement.  In the episode, which is pending release. I delivered 5 lessons Ive learned from Pope Leo XIV, who is now the spiritual leader for 1.4+ billion…

Humility is a characteristic of strong leadership that attracts. The world saw this on full display last Thursday, when Pope Leo XIV, the first American Pope and “Bob” to his family/friends, initially greeted the world in both Italian and Spanish. He is fluent in both languages, which is beyond impressive to me, despite speaking American…

One critical and challenging part of leadership is managing communication with your team. The higher levels of leadership you go, the more bad news you receive. Why? The leader of every department or company is tasked with solving the biggest constraint of the department or organization. What’s better? Leadership is an ongoing process of solving…

The last 2 weeks have been busy.  We just executed my 24th leadership quarterly meeting with our EOS implementor, Brian Underhill. We analyzed our Q1.  We looked at what worked and what opportunities we have to improve. We then plotted the course for Q2, as we live in a 90-day world. This 90-day process has…