THE LEADERSHIP BLOG
Making Deep Connections, Restoring Trust, & Leading from the Bottom Up
Find Your Iron Part 1
https://youtu.be/sDVS3uvsYWY Hey, what's going on, Rooftop Nation? Have you ever heard the old saying that iron sharpens iron? I've always loved that. You hear it in the gyms these days and it seems to be a pretty popular saying, but I do like...
If It’s Simple, Why Do We Fail?
https://youtu.be/PeOcMjiLA4w Hey, what's going on Rooftop Nation? If our dreams and goals are simple, why do we fail? I think that's a really fair question, and it's certainly a question that I ask myself all the time. As a leadership coach and human...
Resilience Over Resistiance
https://youtu.be/wlwkkZ3P0gg The subject of this blog is resilience over resistance. In this time of churn in this time of volatility, uncertainty, crowdedness, complexity, and ambiguity in this era of distraction, disengagement and distrust, and of course,...
Anger Makes You Stupid
https://youtu.be/yJc8OFGVhgI I would say it's always justified to be angry. I'm not a mental health professional, but I know that humans are emotional creatures and that an emotion is just that. It's something that washes over you. It's something that's calling for...
Steven Pressfield: A MAN AT ARMS
https://youtu.be/y7jAyTcarpw Steven Pressfield is one of the most prolific authors in America and a damn good friend to Rooftop Leadership. His insights into human behavior, human performance and human connections are remarkable. In this groundbreaking episode, Steve...
Nobody is Coming
https://youtu.be/fqbF-pNMCYo Leaders at all levels are giving their power away. If you don't believe me, look at the recent election and look at the way people are treating each other. Friends that have been friends for decades unfriending, at the minimum, all the way...
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...
3 Ways Change Can Freak Your People Out
https://youtu.be/zX7QsjMciqw I understand that as you're watching this, you're a leader who was faced with some really tough decisions in 2020. If you were a business owner, you looked at pay cuts, you looked at payroll issues, maybe layoffs. If you were a team...
Resolutions Fail: Try This In 2021 Instead
https://youtu.be/afRrgHrmD0Q According to British psychologist Richard Wiseman, 88% of people who make New Year's resolutions fail in those resolutions. Those are not good odds, especially coming out of a year like 2020. If we want to make a deeper impact, a bigger...
How Will You Say Goodbye to 2020?
https://youtu.be/Si8MG2WY20Q Hey, Rooftop leaders! Let me ask you a question as I welcome you to 2021, how are you saying goodbye to 2020? When we say things like, “I just can't wait for the year to be in my rear-view mirror”, or “I just want to put it behind me”, or...
Bridging Through the Election
https://youtu.be/DkqO7OWkAps Hey, Rooftop leaders. How are you doing? I know we are in some very turbulent times right now going through the election and on the other side of the election. I can tell you in my time as a Green Beret working in trust depleted...
