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Leadership isn't proving you can read the room. It's being secure enough in who you are that the room doesn't change you. Adapt your approach. Adjust your communication. Read your audience. But don't camouflage your character.

Most leaders think leadership is about being the strongest person in the room. Having the answer. Owning the strategy. Making the call. Controlling the outcome. But some of the greatest leaders in the world do something very different. They build bridges. Today we are learning from Diane Wang and what lessons we can put into action immediately!

Sometimes the difference between somebody giving up and somebody becoming extraordinary is a person who refuses to underestimate themselves.  So this is what I want you to reflect on today...that dream inside your head that goal that you've been putting off that body that you want to have. that song you want the world to hear that painting you want the world to see that vice president position you know you can lead better than anyone else….what if you never find out?

Hi, it's Andy, and welcome to another Mid-Week Mastery! Let me ask you something: How long are you going to wait for somebody to recognize your potential before you finally do something about it?

We are going to think about your career trajectory and what's really important for you! What do you want your work to make possible? Who is better off because you did the work? Who is better off because I did this work? Let's answer these questions today!

I’m sure almost all of you have seen the movie Forrest Gump, but if you haven’t the main character recites an expression his Mother taught him, “My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”  So I wanted to dig into that question and ask if we should believe that's really true. Is life something more that you control and get what you want or is it a game of chance? We cannot control everything that enters the box but we have enormous influence over what we choose, what we do with it, and what we reach for next. Let's talk about it!

Alain de Botton has written about the idea that a meaningful life cannot simply be prescribed to us by somebody else. We have to discover it ourselves. And sometimes that takes a long time. You may spend years pursuing something because you were taught that achieving it would make your life matter.

I understand how life can make progress genuinely difficult. People have responsibilities and obstacles I can’t see. I’m talking about the moments when we do have a choice and we quietly choose what’s familiar. So here’s the question I want to put to you today: Where are you saying you want to be excellent, while continuing to practice being average?

Today, I want to pull 6 lessons from The Power of Us and use them to ask a bigger question: Are we still capable of working together? I believe we are. But it may require remembering something we've forgotten. And I think the problem isn’t that we disagree too much. The problem is that we’ve forgotten how to belong to something bigger than our disagreement. Let's learn how to expand "us."

Who or what from your past are you still allowing to have too much authority over your future? Acknowledge what happened. Tell the truth about it. Learn from it. But don’t give it the steering wheel. (Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/music/tracks/christopher-galovan/essentia License code: DCSI3VQV5F7VYPTN)

Think about one person on your team you're frustrated with right now. Before you make a permanent judgment about them, ask yourself three questions: Have I coached them clearly? Have I given them enough repetitions? Have I given them a real opportunity to improve?” If the answer to any of those is no, you may not know their potential yet. Let's talk about how to uncover the greatness in your team!

How do the facets created by pain become something useful instead of something that keeps cutting you?That's what we are going to jump onto and how to turn around pain into something useful.

"Not yet” has a nasty habit of quietly becoming “never.” And one day, you may be the older version of yourself looking backward, wishing the person you are today had simply gone for it. So here's your Mid-Week Mastery: Don't ask yourself: “Am I ready?” Ask: “What's one move I can make today?” (music with kind permission by Terra Symphonia "A Beautiful Mind")

Today I want to save you from organizational whiplash!This isn't a theory I pulled out of a leadership book. This was my actual playbook of 7 steps that kept my team's grounded and focused when the people around us moved the goal post.Your daily playbook should be simple enough that you can actually remember it when the day gets messy. Leadership has become unnecessarily complicated. Let’s make it simple again!

This is about finally ending the war you’ve been fighting with yourself. Self-improvement driven by self-contempt is fundamentally broken. Because if you don’t learn to accept yourself now…success won’t save you later. Let's fix this with 5 easy actionable steps!