Identity Archives - Diamond Leadership

5 Ways to Cultivate Your Personal Power

by Patrick Kitchen | Sep 11, 2018 | Articles, Change, Identity, Leadership, Learning and Development, powerless

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you. –Lao Tzu As an executive coach, I’ve had plenty of experience helping clients deal with ineffective leadership in the form of an insecure boss. This isn’t just a...

Mind the Gap

by mattlurie | Feb 5, 2018 | Articles, Feedback, Identity, Leadership

Humans are often irrational. And why shouldn’t we be? After all, reason is just one of our many cognitive abilities. But sometimes irrationality is troublesome. Consider this foible: what we feel, we tend to think of as real. For instance, if I was on a subway and the...

The Hero Trap

by Julie | Oct 7, 2017 | Articles, Hero, Identity, Leadership, Learning and Development, over work

A few years ago, I worked with an extremely intelligent CEO named Robert (not his real name). Robert had just taken over the reins of a startup, and under his guidance, the company doubled its revenue and added over 35 new positions. In that year, Robert changed, too....

Underdogs and Alpha Dogs

by Julie | Oct 7, 2017 | Articles, Change, Identity, Leadership, powerless

In his well-known book, Only the Paranoid Survive, Andy Grove, Silicon Valley pioneer and former CEO of Intel, recounts the story of the Pentium FDIV bug, an error in one of the earlier versions of the Intel Pentium processor. Intel was aware of the bug, but made the...