https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Hey-Everyday-Leader-What-Pervades-Your-Identity-1.mp3 [I am going to write about Martin Luther King, Jr. next week.] My friend Berke’ Brown shared some psychological research that stuck with me....
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Leaders-Say-No-Will-You.mp3 2020 Sucked! It brought a lot of suffering on a lot of levels and to too many people. And the suffering will continue, especially...
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Thank-You-For-Hearing-Me.mp3 I recently fell in love again with Sinead’s haunting song, the title for this week’s missive, Thank You For Hearing Me. Thank you for hearing...
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Thanksgiving-Colored-Glasses.mp3 May I jumpstart your Thanksgiving week? I enjoin you to lead those around you to Give Thanks. As Kouzes & Posner wrote, and I...
Continue ReadingI loved hearing the body of this message and kind of like the way I read it. Perhaps the 2:46 reading is worth a listen...
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Can-We-Come-Out-Now.mp3 Has the smoke cleared? Are the hurricanes gone? Has the virus stopped spreading? Could we be on the eve of the “peaceful transition [or...
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Fuel-and-Nutrition-for-Leadership.m4a Two weeks ago, Ashton wrote on values, reminding us to ground ourselves in what we hold most dear. Then, Dan spoke to the importance...
Continue ReadingFirst, the backstory. I had back-to-back meetings last week with a client I’ve been consulting to and another I’m coaching. On a group Zoom call,...
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Reconnecting-with-core-values.mp3 By Ashton Fandel of LeadingX2 As the strange cadence of this year continues, one might feel somewhat like a flag, flapping in the wind....
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Scarier-Season-TRULY.mp3 Five weeks ago, I started writing about about leadership strategies during pre-election Scary Season. That was before RBG passed, before the debate debacle, and...
Continue ReadingBy Laura Andersen of LeadingX2 Last weekend I taught a five-year-old how to use a badminton racket. She started off open-minded to learning and eager...
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Leading-Through-Scary-Season-Part-3-Dont-Kill-the-Leader.mp3 This is the third in a series on leading in these scary times – with Covid, economic pressure, BLM and the reaction(s) to it,...
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Leading-Through-Scary-Season-Part-2-Bullseye.mp3 Since I wrote last week, Scary Season has gotten even scarier, with the fires and horrific air quality in the Bay Area. Today, one...
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Leading-Through-Scary-Times-Part-1.mp3 I used to think of this 60-day lead-up to the election as Silly Season. Now it feels like Scary Season. In the coming series...
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Why-am-I-here.m4a By Laura Andersen It is way too easy now. A meeting gets put on your calendar about a project. No preparation instructions, no asks...
Continue ReadingRonald Heifetz, JFK School of Government at Harvard. https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Human-Animals-Pause.mp3 Heifetz would drive people crazy, when… He would p-a-u-s-e Uncomfortably L O N G 1…..2…..3 seconds....
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Are-You-Leading-or-Are-You-Led.mp3 Last week, I wrote about how in-your-face Covid has been for all of us. Not equally, of course. Some of your families may be...
Continue ReadingPodcast: Play in new window | Download The exhausting challenge. The amazing opportunity. Resilience . . . Plus . . . At no time in...
Continue ReadingPodcast: Play in new window | Download https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Reverence-for-Time.m4a Recently, I had the honor of interviewing a friend of mine, Niket Desai, for a leadership course...
Continue ReadingPodcast: Play in new window | Download By Laura Andersen of LeadingX2 https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Choose-your-multiplier-effect.m4a “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been...
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/The-Covid-Shutdown-breathing-the-spirit-of-leadership.mp3 [Tweet “The Ego is captive to urgency. The Spirit breathes in the calm.” – DGM] Covid has been offering us all a chance to...
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Faith-Facts-and-Goals.m4a By Laura Andersen of LeadingX2 This week I talked to a customer-facing manager while he prepared lunch for his kids. In the past month,...
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Generosity-the-Leadership-Antidote.mp3 The pandemic wears on. People get more restless with the abiding uncertainty, wrankling repetition, and worry. True in homes. True in nursing homes. True...
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Covid-Boundaries-and-Leadership.mp3 Today I begin a writing partnership with Greg McBeth. Greg’s an engineer, co-founder with his wife Falon, consultant to entrepreneurs, and great writer. He’s also...
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Cohabit-by-2-Covid-19-Strategies-4.mp3 It’s a painful irony that we share both our deepest and ennobling love, yet also reserve our worst behavior for those who are closest...
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Strengthen-Under-Stress.m4a From Laura Andersen of LX2. “So… what should we have for dinner tonight?” For the past two years, I’ve wanted to ask that question...
Continue Readinghttps://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Back-to-Leadership-Basics-in-This-Time-of-Danger-1.mp3 I have always written R2L for “everyday leaders,” because the functions of leadership can be served by anyone. You can lead up or across,...
Continue ReadingI’m becoming like my old man who couldn’t assemble anything physical but loved to take words apart and put them back together. I wish I’d...
Continue ReadingPodcast: Play in new window | Download Thanks for the comments and emails about last week’s blog on Aunt Linda and leaders like her who...
Continue ReadingPodcast: Play in new window | Download In a hurry? Skip to the last three paragraphs, however, know that this column heads in one direction...
Continue ReadingFor six years I have been looking at the nature of Leading by Two. I have been coaching pairs 2-at-a-time, running workshops on great pairs...
Continue ReadingPodcast: Play in new window | Download The prevailing wisdom of the moment is right and fair: Individuals have boundaries and each person should be...
Continue ReadingPodcast: Play in new window | Download Last week I wrote about Michigan State men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo raging at a freshman player, Aaron...
Continue ReadingPodcast: Play in new window | Download About ten years ago, Duke Coach K for Krzyzewsky was cast in a commercial where, with his nasally...
Continue ReadingA week ago, I spoke to 1,500 people from the TEDx Berkeley stage at Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. I was blind. I...
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Continue ReadingPodcast: Play in new window | Download Thank you to the 117 of you who have answered my 2-question survey on first level supervisors. I...
Continue ReadingStudents come back to me or write to me: “Professor Mulhern (or usually, Dan), my manager clearly never took your class!” And they explain. Many...
Continue ReadingPodcast: Play in new window | Download My co-writer, John Gillis, says “No one leads alone. No one.” When you pull away the perceptual film...
Continue ReadingPodcast: Play in new window | Download I posted a variation of this article on LinkedIn last week. Ever wonder what a bellwether is? It’s...
Continue ReadingPodcast: Play in new window | Download For the first time in the 20 years I’ve been writing a New Years message, I am contradicting...
Continue ReadingPodcast: Play in new window | Download I sent out a short list of good books from 2018 on Friday. You can read my mini-reviews...
Continue Reading1. Being your best self. Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope. I would describe Anne Lamott as a seeker, seer, and humorist. She always brings me...
Continue ReadingPodcast: Play in new window | Download Today’s story is short and stands on its own – a tender example of LeadingX2: James Addison Baker...
Continue ReadingPodcast: Play in new window | Download The Irish priests in Boston know their politics. Still, Fr. McInnes’ prescience and sophistication jolted me. During our...
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