Do you have your strengths, or do your strengths have you? Michael Watkins teaches that what got you where you are won’t necessarily serve you there. “Success often requires us to stop doing some things we’ve been doing and to embrace new competencies.” The surgeon leader who tells herself, “To meet expectations, I must do…
The Spanish poet Antonio Machado wrote, ‘I caught a glimpse of him in a dream, expert hunter of himself, always in ambush.’ Machado reminds us that the self is perpetually incomplete. Growth is not just what we can do. It’s what we can be. The idea of self-growth can be daunting, but courage is not…
“Mankind owns four things That are no good at sea: Rudder, anchor, oars, And the fear of going down.”[i] In leadership, we are often responsible for things we don’t completely control. Some refer to it as the Authority Paradox. The more authority we have, it seems, the less we can rely on authority to get…
Fern EPC President Brad Fern describes the Assertiveness Spectrum: https://youtu.be/jQ-zWDe7rOY