Leveraging Leadership
with Amy Burkett
“People hate change.”
I’ve heard that sentence from leaders for years and I’ve seen teams demonstrate it first-hand more times than I can count.
Sometimes it’s true. Some people really are resistant...
I have a confession to make. Please send me a note if it ever happens to you too.
There are days when my motivation wanes. There I said it.
Not because I don't love what I do.
Not because I've stop...
It's hard to believe our nation is about to celebrate its 250th birthday.
I know I'm a little early, but recently I found myself thinking about the incredible vision of our nation's founders and the ...
Over a decade ago, I established what I call the Four E's for our organization:
Excellence. Efficiency. Effectiveness. Entrepreneurship.
Those pillars don't change.
What does change is our ability ...
For years, we’ve been handed a narrow script for what success is supposed to look like.
Climb the ladder.
Collect the title.
Hit the numbers.
Stay busy.
Look polished.
Never fail.
From the outside, it so...
I hope you know how much I love sharing my leadership experience with you. Because you read my blog weekly, I have to keep learning in order to have content worthy of your time. Last week I came acro...
I was doing some research this week and came across an incredible author I had somehow never read before. Anne Grady, author of EvolvAbility:Growing Forward When Life Goes Sideways. She’s a resilience...
So much of what we do as leaders lives in subtlety which makes recognizing problems early really hard. Most alignment problems don’t announce themselves loudly.
They don’t start with missed deadline...
If the word strategy makes your shoulders tense a little, you’re not alone.
Last week’s blog survey made something crystal clear to me:
80% of you want strategy to feel less overwhelming and more acti...
I hope you enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving. I’m incredibly grateful that we got to celebrate it with our son who works in the ski industry in Park City, Utah. We didn’t get any snow until our last ...
When was the last time you read something that you couldn’t get out of your mind? For me it was a Forbes article I read last week. It explained how Nike, for the first time in nearly 40 years, shifte...
I just returned from a leadership conference with my mentor, New York Times bestselling author John Maxwell, and as I promised I’ve got some fresh new strategies to share with you to help you be a tra...
