Ask anyone walking out of a conference how it went. Amazing. Wonderful. Best one yet. Maybe they all meant it. And maybe not!

We can all benefit if we mobilize the talent in our midst as human beings. Let’s tell the industry leaders that we are better when we work together.

“Be a servant leader.” “Lead with your heart.” “Listen more.” Sure — but what does a leader do on Monday morning?

I grew up in a conservative religious family with a father who was critical of everything. For a long time, I thought he gave me nothing but wounds.

After six years of staff meetings, trainings, and framed mission statements, the best she could come up with was more of a guess than a conviction.

Conventional wisdom says high returns and margins equal excellence. But when you focus on margins, your thinking is always short-term.

I’m talking about leaders who, no matter how successful they are, constantly strive to be better. We would be transforming the world of aging.

I keep getting asked the same question: If you could go back in time, what is one lesson would you teach your younger self?

They’re positioning this conference as the place where the next act gets written: capital, care, and community in the same room.

If you’re trying, people are surprisingly forgiving. And that’s the best news in the whole conversation: you don’t have to become perfect.

There’s nothing wrong with senior living except falling short on potential. Mr. Williams sets forth a guidebook for how senior living might thrive.

Almost no one ever talks about the gap between the humble leader and the great leader, even though closing this gap transforms teams.

If you don’t clearly communicate your vision for your team, for your organization, no one will want to travel with you.

It’s easy to be nice to people you like. That’s not leadership. The hard part? Going the extra mile for people who clearly don’t deserve it.

“But my team needs to know what everyone’s working on.” Maybe. But they don’t need a meeting for that. What they need is for you to stop wasting their time

There is no industry better positioned than senior living to put merit first before appearance, contacts, and bias.

At Foresight, one of the most-asked questions we get is, “What’s the best senior living conference to attend?”

Every single person in that room had work waiting for them. Real work. And we’d just burned an hour telling each other what we already knew.

How you respond in those spontaneous moments tells a lot about who you are and what your leadership can achieve.

What if it’s not the constraints? What if it’s not the organization? What if it’s not your boss, your budget, your staff, or your circumstances?

You can’t make the building something it’s not. But …you can create a culture where people feel like they belong to something worthwhile.

Is there still room, even a tiny bit of room, to lead? To make things incrementally better? To impact the actual humans in front of you?

Leadership work is never “done. Which is why … every once in a while, if we want to be at our best, it is imperative that we STOP.

We all live with an unconscious shaping of our values and thinking by the culture in which we live. That’s as true of businesspeople as it is of everyone.