http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=David+Lesser Leadership David Lesser Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=189278&ca=Leadership Is there a taboo on talking about feelings at your place of work? Is there a tacit collusion to pretend that none of us are as sentient as in fact we are? What kind of depth happens in the conversations you initiate or the teams you lead? Shallow work environments are getting left behind in the race... Leadership David Lesser Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=189280&ca=Leadership Sometimes what needs to be done is a really tough thing to do. Leaders have to terminate employees, unpopular things have to be said and so on. In such situations, people usually see what is needed long before they are willing to admit it to themselves. The most successful executives are those who h... Leadership David Lesser Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=162917&ca=Leadership My mentor always told me he would rather people were either hot or cold toward him, not lukewarm. You cannot do much with lukewarm response, but you can use challenge and opposition to advantage. Some weeks the same topic keeps coming up in a number of different coaching sessions. Last week it was l... Leadership David Lesser Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=162933&ca=Leadership The CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation once acknowledged to me that at his core he didn’t know who he was or what he’s really about. This kind of self-forgetting is surprisingly common. My colleagues and I work with people who have achieved great success by dedicating themselves to giving the... Leadership David Lesser Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=162934&ca=Leadership Success in any creative endeavor depends on trust. If your colleagues trust you, they will give in ways they didn’t know were possible. If banks and investors trust you, they will finance your projects. In deep personal work, if a client trusts you, he or she will see and release life-long patterns... Leadership David Lesser Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=162935&ca=Leadership Clients often ask me for tools and techniques to make them more effective in working with people. In a coaching session, whenever we discuss and practice how to handle a particular person or situation, we usually end up recognizing that the connection is the most important thing. Even in the tensest... Leadership David Lesser Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=162936&ca=Leadership I am writing from England, where my nephew Sam has just had his barmitzvah. This marks his transition from boy to young man. To assist in his passage, his father and I took Sam on a two-day vision quest in the woods. We agreed not to speak about what occurred. However, the basic elements of what we... Leadership David Lesser Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=162938&ca=Leadership Effectiveness is the capacity to produce an intended result. When asked, most people say they are not manifesting their full potential. They have more talent than effectiveness. The art of coaching is to see what inhibits effectiveness in each client. I will touch on some of the classic inhibitors I...