THE LEADERSHIP BLOG
Making Deep Connections, Restoring Trust, & Leading from the Bottom Up
Trust in America
https://youtu.be/Eb5js2bGE_8 Trust is a measurable thing. According to Stephen Covey Jr, we can see that when businesses lose trust, it affects their bottom line. It affects efficiency. Speed goes down when trust depletes. Here at Rooftop, we spend a lot of time...
Leading Teams in Crisis
https://youtu.be/_d-H3hWOgFE One of the hardest things that I've found as a leader, and what I hear all the time, is that when you're in a crisis situation, like the one we are in today, where there is persistent fear, persistent uncertainty, there will be a level of...
How to Lead Through Video Fatigue
https://youtu.be/YU0ukuqUcmA Not too long ago, I was talking to a C-Suite executive at one of the top 10 banks that I coach . He was telling me that on average he's doing 10 to 11 calls a day, video calls, not even time to go to the bathroom in-between calls. And then...
First Report is Always Wrong
https://youtu.be/lNz1XJp6pG4 It was a big lesson for me as a leader to see that in high stakes, no fail situations, the initial reports that often come in are wrong or at least inaccurate, or at least not fully baked. And that's just human nature. We all go...
Rooftop Rally Point: Don’t Quit
https://youtu.be/xHBGASZTrkk I made lots of mistakes as an army officer in Special Forces. Lots of things I could have done better, but one of the things I did learn was never to quit. Because of the training that you go through in Special Forces and all the...
Be Straight with People
https://youtu.be/FBXqD1hRyW4 As a rooftop leader, there's going to be times when you have to do things that are not pleasant. You're going to have to do things with your coworkers that involve you standing up for things. With your associates and your employees where...
Leadership is Forever
https://youtu.be/nchzlunUKsY As I look at my life, six years after retirement from the military, after 23 years, I am coming to see more and more that leadership is forever, that is, real leadership. Rooftop leadership is forever and that's why I chose this...
The Opposite of Fear
https://youtu.be/gUIUP5q992c The opposite of fear, is love. The greatest counter poised to fear the ancients believed is love, the love of the individual warrior for his brothers in arms. At Thermopylae, on the final morning when the last surviving Spartans knew...
Every Breath is Precious
https://youtu.be/SbrEcMqoOko The thing that I learned that I want to talk about today as we go into Memorial Day is that “Every Breath is Precious”. Every breath we take in, every breath we let out is precious because our time on this earth is limited and we don't...
Creating a Movement
https://youtu.be/g3BGumudkjo A movement is where people take action, in a collective way, that they otherwise wouldn't take in the face of high stakes, high risk, ambiguity and complexity. Yet they take a stand, shoulder to shoulder, and achieve a tipping point that...
MTWA: Meet Them Where They Are
https://youtu.be/261OuKq5Zpc Humans will not take action unless they feel psychologically safe, and unless they feel connected to the other humans around them. Humans will not take action of any kind, they won't buy from you, they won't invest in you, they won't...
Mission Decision Line: MDL
https://youtu.be/_KvZHCZelXM The “Mission Decision Line”, or the “MDL”, is the point of no return. It's a line on the ground, and on your map, it's like a valley, or a linear feature like a road, it's easily recognizable and it tells everybody from the...
Practice and Preparation
https://youtu.be/G25ITAo89uU If you want to move people to action it's those soft skills of storytelling, physicality, interpersonal connection, reciprocity, active listening, and negotiating that are the most effective, and you must practice those skillsets. ...