When you imagine an apple, which do you see? Every few months this image goes viral as people are surprised how everyone is different in what they can imagine, and with what level of fidelity. In today's edition, our poll looks at a similar question, and compares individual contributors to managers, while also looking at the culture...

What's true for trees is also true for starting one on ones.  If you aren't having one on ones with your team, you're missing out on an incredible motivating, problem solving, pressure relieving opportunity to help and grow your team.  But even if you're totally bought into starting them, it can be intimidating to actually get started. ...

How are you doing on your annual goals? One of the things I love about the 12 Week Year process I use, is that essentially you get 4 shots at your annual goals; by setting them quarterly, and taking time to reflect on them each quarter, you can course correct and hopefully hit them. For me, not everything went as I planned, but I have renewed...

You've just lost your 3rd straight game to your biggest rival by an embarrassing margin in front of your home crowd; they've won dozens of championship since your last win and they eliminated you from the playoffs in heartbreaking fashion last year. Would you persevere like the 2004 Boston Red Sox? Would you be able to rally the will to...

Building on last week's topic on integrity, I wanted to share part of a discussion I had with a leader who replied to last week's edition: The most important aspect of integrity is your example. How you act is what your team sees and reacts to, so you need to get that right first. ​ ​But what about your team having integrity? ​ ​It comes down...

While many leaders like Andy Grove of Intel, Ben Horowitz of A16Z, and Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman swear by one on one meetings, there are many managers and leaders that doubt their importance and choose not to have them. A big part of this doubt is often due to experiencing the disadvantages of one to one meetings themselves.  Like any good idea,...