Category: Leadership
Who Is Sitting at Your Table?
If you find yourself feeling down, or alone, or unsupported, try this. It takes about ten minutes. It costs nothing. And it might change how your day feels.
Read MoreMy Dream for Senior Living Leaders
The concept could translate into something marvelous and wonderful that completely changes how we think about serving older people.
Read MoreNobody’s Ever Tried This, But It Could Rock Senior Living
“The leaders weren’t commanding from above; they were building trust that allowed the group to self-organize toward its horizon.”
Read MoreThe Morning Page That Runs Your Day
None of this requires you to believe in journaling as a lifestyle. It just requires you to notice that an unmanaged brain is a noisy one.
Read MoreIt’s Time For You to Shut-up — The Most Underrated Leadership Skill Is Listening
Trust is higher. People are more engaged. They’re more willing to speak up. And leaders are more likely to get the information they actually need.
Read MoreThat Thing That Got You to the Top Is Killing You
Most of us will never have trouble finding opportunities to talk. The discipline is recognizing those moments when talking is the wrong thing to do.Â
Read MoreThe MorseLife Mess, Part 3: The Reckoning
So there are now three threads: a defamation case, a contract case, and whatever gets resolved in arbitration.
Read MoreAre You a Force Multiplier or Something Else?
As a leader, your job isn’t to be the smartest person in the room or the one doing the most work. It is your job to be a force multiplier!
Read MoreThe MorseLife Mess, Part 2: The Vaccines, and Who Was Supposed to Say No
MorseLife held a vaccination clinic. 976 people were vaccinated. More than half, 567 people, were not eligible under the program.
Read MoreThe MorseLife Mess, Part 1: The Management Agreement
Amplifii has since filed its own breach of contract suit against MorseLife, and the agreement itself, along with a lengthy attached schedule of duties.
Read MoreThe Death of Feedback Sandwiches
The feedback sandwich protects leaders, not employees. Switch to Situation-Behavior-Impact for honest communication that actually changes behavior.
Read MoreThe Frontier Airline School of Executive Leadership
Maybe the real value of watching Frontier is not the satisfaction of being angry at an airline. It’s the discomfort of asking ourselves a harder question.
Read MoreI Blew It Bad …
A few months ago, we published an article that blew up in the wrong kind of way. I was upset by it, my team was upset by it, no one was happy.
Read MoreYour Life Is the By-Product of Your Lifestyle
We have dozens, maybe hundreds, of things we do each day with little or no thought. None of it feels like a decision. That’s the point.
Read MoreA Fresh Start at Brookdale
As a shareholder and senior living resident, I’ve long had an interest in Brookdale Senior Living. I bought in many years ago when the stock was at $37.
Read MoreThis Is the Only Thing That Really Counts
The only test I think actually matters is uncomfortably simple: how did I make the people I came into contact with today feel?
Read MoreThe Most Brilliantly Insane Leadership Pay Structure
Here is how it works at Texas Roadhouse. The restaurant manager is required to invest $25,000, and they get 10% of profits, plus stock in the company.
Read MoreThe Three-Word Question That Unlocks Your Team
You know your people. You know their names, their roles, maybe their kids’ names. But do you actually know them?
Read MoreDealing With Problems Out of Your Control
What if the only thing standing between you and next month’s rent was how well you treated a resident today?
Read MoreBreak the Invisible Wall
Today, focus on solutions to the biggest and hardest problems using a tool called ‘The Worst Ideas First.’
Read MoreThe 13 Bullet Points That Went Nowhere
The knowledge was never the problem. The problem is what happens, or doesn’t happen, in the week after the conference ends.
Read MoreFinding Talent Hidden in Your Own Organization
The most important task of a leader is to find, motivate, advance, and reward talent. It’s talented people who determine how well the mission is fulfilled.
Read MoreWhat Do You Need to Fire Yourself From?
Right now, as a leader, you are doing things you shouldn’t be doing. Have courage. Hand off one or two tasks and see how it goes.
Read MoreCan Two CEOs Be Better Than One?
Co-CEO structures are still rare in senior living. Maybe because most boards, investors, and teams are more comfortable with one person at the top.
Read MoreWhat Do I Need To Stop Believing About Myself? – The Brutal Truth
Most leaders are too impressed with themselves. They tend to be overconfident, certain, unwilling to consider that they might be wrong.
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