The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves.

Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on a journey, and on any hero's journey there will be a setback.

You can't mobilize people and connect with them authentically when they can't see the true you.

Inevitably in my career of 35 years, I was in one turnaround circumstance after another, and I was personally put in positions of significant responsibility but without complete authority over everyone that needed to be mobilized.

Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve.

The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves.

Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error.