Progressive Leaders focus on making improvements while trying to be considerate of the interests of others - but that doesn’t mean that everything we do has to immediately benefit everyone. In fact, many of the improvements we need to make are improv...

A few years ago, I read all about the wonders of rising early - about all the AMAZING things you can accomplish if you get out of bed while most of humanity is still drooling on their pillows - and I bought into it. You can’t blame me. There are coun...

One critical factor in all of the various areas of self-improvement and personal development is the ability to change or eliminate existing habits and create new habits designed to support your improvement and development goals. The most important ha...

Progressive Leaders need to make progress - we need to move ahead and help everyone else do the same - but we can't do that well unless we cultivate a true “growth mindset.”We need to look for challenges that’ll push us beyond the edges of our comfor...

Ben Franklin said, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” It’s a maxim that our organizations should definitely take to heart. We’re always gonna need people who can solve problems because no system or process is perfect. Problems WILL oc...

As I explained in the very first episode of The Progressive Leader Podcast, “respect” is not a commodity. It's not something we demand or expect from others. It's not something we earn, collect, and then use as leverage to get favors or preferential...

The best leaders I’ve known in my career understand that they’ll always have to deal with strengths and weaknesses. And even though all the folks I’ve ever interviewed have tried to share a “weakness” that sounds suspiciously like a strength, the fac...

Look Beneath the Veneer!Progressive Leaders aren’t out to simply prove that someone else is wrong. They’re not simply out to cast doubt upon someone else’s conclusions either. Progressive Leaders are trying to understand a broad range of perspectives...

Acceptance ExceptionsWhen I talk about “unconditional acceptance,” it’s in regards to human beings… and it’s simply a foundation to help us deal with others more effectively and appropriately. But as Progressive Leaders, I don’t recommend simply acce...

Tuesday TangentOur topic this week on The Progressive Leader is focused on the third REAL Value: ACCEPT, and in today’s podcast I address something I hear a lot when I talk about acceptance without conditions: “How the f@%k am I supposed to accept T*...