Practical articles on leading yourself, leading your team and leading better conversations. Written by Camden and Otis McGregor, drawn from Special Forces teams, professional rugby and the companies we coach.
19 articles
Accountability in the workplace is the standard a team actually holds, measured by what leadership walks past. It is set before anything goes wrong, through clear expectations,...
Most employee recognition ideas fail for one reason: nobody says the thing out loud. Name what the person did, say it close to when they did it, and say it straight to them. That...
A strong team is built on common experience, shared difficulty, and the certainty that nobody gets dropped for struggling. When someone underperforms, a team looks at how to replace...
A business system is a repeatable process, and the point of one is that it frees your attention for the hard problems. Build it on the fundamentals you already do well, write it...
To delegate well, hand over three things at once: what needs to be done, how you want it done, and when you need it. Then give the person the resources and the authority to do it,...
Leadership vision is a clear picture of the end state plus the direction that gets you there. It works the way a North Star works. You do not walk to it. You use it to know which...
Leading through change comes down to staying out of reaction mode. Pause long enough to read what is actually happening, deal with the one thing that must be stopped right now, then...
The hardest part of military to civilian transition is not finding a job. It is that nobody assigns you anything any more, and that the training you are about to box up is the most...
Purpose driven leadership means your work and your reason for doing it point the same direction, and your team can see it. It shows up in where the calendar actually goes, not in a...
Time management for leaders is about control rather than efficiency. Reaction mode is what eats a week: arriving, asking what has to happen now, and moving to the next thing without...
Motivation is great. When we feel motivated, we feel like we can do anything. No obstacle is too big and there is always a solution.
There are countless reasons we get stuck. We get too comfortable, we wait for a crisis to force us to change, we fear failure. I walked through each of those traps in why change is...
You have your suspicions about that troublesome team member, but you do not make a change until they do something egregious. What if that never happens? What if the crisis never comes?
If a leader is scared of failure, it clouds their judgment, and that fear spreads to the team. When your team is afraid to fail, they stop taking risks and run back to the leader...
Poll a room of executives on whether they want their teams to grow, bring creativity to their roles, and help drive innovation. Every hand goes up. Ask those same leaders whether...
You and your team are speaking different languages. Unless they know how to translate, they are guessing.
If you were walking down the street and someone started yelling at you and calling you an idiot, would you believe them? Of course not. We generally find it easy to externalize that...
Leadership is a choice. How you choose to show up sets the tone for the team, and your ability to see opportunity sets the ceiling for the team's performance.
All the talent in the world cannot win a game without alignment. High performance requires teams to be properly aligned, and team alignment is the part most leaders skip.
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Camden writes on self-leadership, team performance and communication. Co-host of the 10x Your Team podcast, former professional rugby player.
Otis spent 24 years in US Army Special Forces and now builds leaders inside growing companies. He writes here on leadership, teams, purpose and building systems that hold.