Upsize Your Leadership

This is the third episode in a six-part series examining The Five Essentials of Leadership. It focuses on the second essential: cultivating high trust. Trust rests on credibility, which is a by-product of the first...

Great leadership begins long before strategy, trust, or culture — it begins with character. In this episode -- the second in our six-part series on the essentials of leadership -- we redefine character not as a list of...

<p>Exceptional leadership isn't about perfecting scores of different competencies. It's about understanding and implementing five fundamental principles.</p> <p>When they are developed sequentially and executed...

<p>In a business landscape defined by speed, disruption, and constant uncertainty, competitive advantage no longer goes to the biggest companies. It goes to the fastest.</p> <p>In this episode of Upsize Your Leadership...

<p>As a C-Suite leadership coach for nearly 30 years, I've watched the complexity of executive leadership steadily intensify. In this episode I trace the historical factors that led us to this state of affairs.</p> <p>I...

<p>In this episode, Dr. Mike Armour examines what he sees as a major miscalculation at the heart of the Trump Administration’s proposed peace plan for the Russia‑Ukraine war.</p> <p>Drawing on years of firsthand...

<p>In this episode Dr. Mike challenges conventional approaches to performance metrics by highlighting their limitations in a rapidly changing world.</p> <p>Using Nokia’s dramatic fall from market dominance as a...

<h1>Building Trust Builds Customer Loyalty</h1><p><br></p><p>Research consistently confirms that customers will pay more for a product or service if they trust the provider. Companies should therefore cease on every...

<h1>The Staggering Challenge of Rebuilding Ukraine</h1><p><br></p><p>For the first time in years, the possibility of peace in Ukraine is in the headlines. Ignored in most media coverage, however, is the immense...

<h1>Five Essential Mindset Changes as You Climb the Management Ladder</h1><p><br></p><p>Have you known people with tremendous promise as managers or leaders whose careers got derailed and they never rose to the heights...

<h1>Four Things that Pacesetting Leaders Get Right</h1><p><br></p><p>Our business world is not merely competitive. It's hypercompetitive. Run-of-the-mill performance is no longer acceptable. To stay ahead, companies...

<h1>A Supreme Court Decision That Changed Nothing</h1><h2>The Future of the Beneficial Ownership Information Report Remains Uncertain</h2><p><br></p><p>After bouncing around in district and appeals courts for months...

<h1>What Managers Should Always Remember About Their People</h1><p>One of the shortcomings of modern accounting systems is that they have no mechanism for showing the capability and dedication of your workforce as an...

<h1>Five Ways Managers Can Combat Distrust in the Workplace</h1><p><br></p><p>Recent studies confirm that worker distrust of the company and its managers is solidly entrenched.</p><p><br></p><p>These studies found that...

<h1>Beneficial Ownership Information Report</h1><h2>The Latest Legal Maneuvers </h2><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>As I predicted in my podcast two weeks ago, the court challenge to the Beneficial Ownership Information Report...