Accelus Insights:
The Leadership Narrative

Who wants to be on the bus you are driving?  Can you tell by the glazed eyes and distracted glances at the smartphone in the weekly meeting?  Probably not.  Discovering who wants to be on the bus starts with the hiring process, and continues from there.  However, you can’t ask...

The gnashing and grinding of the gears of a business.  We would all love a well-oiled machine, smoothly operating except for planned downtimes to retool and refresh.  It’s not a reality for our machines and is certainly not an expectation we can have for the people in our organization.  What...

In “A Winning Team Begins With You” we identified that great teams come from great leaders.  And that leadership begins with you.  Our preference is to look at others’ performance as a reflection that they are not capable; that a failing within the other person is the reason for underperformance. ...

Do you ever look at your team and wonder “What are they thinking?”  The blank stares or distracted looks at the smartphone have you wondering if you speak a foreign language.  With missed deadlines and broken communication you wonder how anything gets done.  Oh yea…that’s right, you are the one...

Over the past few weeks, it has occurred to me over and over again, that a feeling of tiredness or fear may be something entirely different.  Getting out of bed each morning is a very simple example.  Even with 7 or more hours of sleep it is difficult to rouse...

Sharing the story of my love for riding and enjoyment of golf is to highlight a common mis-perception.  Just because we are proficient at something doesn’t mean we will pursuit it or even attempt mastery. Discovering what we enjoy doing is an ongoing, exploratory process.  Parents, teachers and other earlier...