Powerful life design and personal development programs from Gregg Vanourek to help you craft your life and work.| GREGG VANOUREK
David Gergen’s legacy, featuring career highlights, leadership quotes, and reflections from prominent leaders on his impact and service.| Triple Crown Leadership
Interview of Don Lombardi, West Metro Fire Chief, by Gregg Vanourek, co-author of Triple Crown Leadership: Building Excellent, Ethical, and Enduring Organizations, for Leadership Jeffco.| Triple Crown Leadership
Web site for the book, Triple Crown Leadership: Building Excellent, Ethical, and Enduring Organizations, by Bob and Gregg Vanourek.| Triple Crown Leadership
Interview of Matthew Malone, President & COO of Graham Corporation, by Gregg Vanourek, co-author of Triple Crown Leadership, for Leadership Jeffco.| Triple Crown Leadership
New college graduates tend to make many mistakes. A list of the top mistakes that new graduates make when it comes to their life and career.| GREGG VANOUREK
Are you facing chaos and uncertainty in your life and work now? How to become a clutch player and thrive amist chaos and uncertainty.| GREGG VANOUREK
7 types of bad leadership according to Dr. Barbara Kellerman, including a Bad Leadership Assessment and 4 phases of going from bad to worse| Triple Crown Leadership
The telltale qualities and behaviors of toxic leaders, the psychological factors that make people follow and stick with them, and what we can do about toxic leadership.| Triple Crown Leadership
On leadership learning: why learning is essential for effective leadership, with practical strategies for leaders to make learning an integral part of their lives.| Triple Crown Leadership
How you can transform your work and leadership with the power of purpose. Conversation between authors, Gregg Vanourek & Richard Leider,| Triple Crown Leadership
Knowing and living your purpose is hard for many. It helps to break it down to the three key elements of purpose. Excerpts from my conversation with Richard Leider.| GREGG VANOUREK
Many people resist thinking about their purpose, in part due to misunderstandings about it. Excerpts from my chat with Richard Leider.| GREGG VANOUREK
On organizational culture and competitive advantage. Can your company culture be a competitive advantage? How to build it?| Triple Crown Leadership
Too many people hope for a Hollywood-style breakthrough or Eureka moment when they should be using the progress principle and racking up small wins. Here’s why and how.| GREGG VANOUREK
Many of us are confined to a mental prison we’ve built for ourselves. Our most vicious jailer is our unhealthy self-talk—our inner critic.| GREGG VANOUREK
New year’s resolutions are famously difficult to achieve. How to avoid the 12 most common new year’s resolutions pitfalls.| GREGG VANOUREK
16 key ethical leadership practices for prioritizing ethics when leading people. Too often leaders focus almost exclusively on performance while neglecting people considerations. Big mistake.| Triple Crown Leadership
Most people are familiar with annual performance reviews, but not many people have done an annual life review. 14 benefits of doing one. And how to do it.| GREGG VANOUREK
Ethical decision-making is a cornerstone of effective leadership. 22 ways ethical leaders approach decision-making.| Triple Crown Leadership
How you can become an ethical leader. What are the signs of ethical leadership in action—the things that ethical leaders do that others don’t? A list of top individual ethical leadership practices.| Triple Crown Leadership
Why maximizing shareholder value is wrong. Our take on shareholder primacy theory versus stakeholder theory.| Triple Crown Leadership
Go beyond delegation and empowering. Unleash other leaders throughout the organization and build a culture of stewardship.| Triple Crown Leadership
Donald Trump is an unconventional leader. Few people know he’s operating from the leadership playbook of his former fixer, Roy Cohn. And with big implications. Here Gregg Vanourek looks at the Donald Trump leadership playbook from a leadership perspective.| Triple Crown Leadership
We have too many toxic leaders in our workplaces, communities, and nations. What are their characteristics? Why do so many people follow them willingly? What makes an environment conducive for them to capture and maintain power?| Triple Crown Leadership
Do workplaces have a role to play in supporting democracy and promoting civic engagement? Yes. 10 ways businesses and nonprofits can bolster democracy.| Triple Crown Leadership
While some people have more of a disposition toward confidence than others, it’s something we can all build. How to build confidence.| GREGG VANOUREK
Dialogue is a rarely used but potentially transformative gathering and communication process that can help groups tap into their collective wisdom, bridge divides, and realize new insights.| Triple Crown Leadership
Credibility is one of the most essential aspects of leadership. How high is your leadership credibility? Here's how to build it.| GREGG VANOUREK
The best way for people to learn leadership is experientially. Give people experience leading. The key: unleashing leaders.| Triple Crown Leadership
How to become a better servant leader, drawing on other leadership frameworks, including our own “triple crown leadership” model.| Triple Crown Leadership
On leader encouragement. What leads should say to their teams, over and over again.| Triple Crown Leadership
A coaching leadership style is on the rise to help organizations be more effective with today’s workers in the current context.| Triple Crown Leadership
Going it alone can be a big problem. Close connection with family and friends and a sense of belonging are critical to happiness.| GREGG VANOUREK
Reframing is a powerful practice that can change the way we see the world and ensure that we’re responding intentionally and not reacting automatically (and negatively) to things.| GREGG VANOUREK
Ego is a problem for all of us. It comes with many related problems, including selfishness, arrogance, self-importance, and mental suffering. How to escape the trap of our ego.| GREGG VANOUREK
Advice is common, and we tend to assume it’s helpful, but there are many hazards of advice that we fail to account for. 18 risks and flaws that come with advice.| GREGG VANOUREK
No matter what field you work in, you’ll be tested with ethical challenges. Do you speak up and refuse or go along? Be a “voice of one.”| Triple Crown Leadership
The best leaders show leadership versatility. They flex their style between the hard and soft edges of leadership, between steel and velvet.| Triple Crown Leadership
Effective leaders flex between what we call "steel and velvet," the hard and soft edges of leadership, depending on the situation and the people involved.| Triple Crown Leadership
Many people are cynical about an organization’s purpose, values, and vision. Great leaders collaboratively elicit them from the team and weave them into the fabric of the organization.| Triple Crown Leadership
Bob and Gregg Vanourek share how to build a culture of character in an organization, based on their book, Triple Crown Leadership.| Triple Crown Leadership
Effective leaders get results by flexing between what we call “steel and velvet,” the hard and soft edges of leadership.| Triple Crown Leadership
Many leaders don’t tailor their communication style to the situation. Effective leaders flex between steel and velvet (hard- and soft-edge) communication.| Triple Crown Leadership
Staying stuck in your natural leadership style is a trap. Why and how you need to get beyond your natural leadership style and flex your leadership.| Triple Crown Leadership
How one serial CEO and turnaround CEO used different strengths in different phases of his career and life. On using your strengths in life and work and how this can work over time.| Triple Crown Leadership
For leaders, there are many benefits of self-awareness, both for themselves and for their followers, teams, and organizations. 21 examples of how self-awareness can elevate leadership.| Triple Crown Leadership
Self-awareness is critical in our life, work, and relationships, but many of us struggle with it. How to develop self-awareness.| GREGG VANOUREK
What self-deception is, including examples of it, where it comes from, its costs, how it degrades our leadership, and what to do about it.| GREGG VANOUREK
The consequences of leaders lacking self-awareness, and a case study of what happens when leaders lack self-awareness| Triple Crown Leadership
Wise leaders take the time for self-care through a regimen of daily activities, sanctuary, and retreats. The benefits are enormous.| Triple Crown Leadership
It’s hard to be a good leader if you’re a dominating talker. 19 practices for how to become a better listener.| Triple Crown Leadership
Self-awareness has many benefits in our life and work. How to develop self-awareness, including 7 powerful approaches.| GREGG VANOUREK
Many people struggle with setting boundaries and enforcing them in their life and work. Why setting boundaries is hard and how to do it well.| GREGG VANOUREK
Today we have a dearth of courageous leaders. The telltale actions of courageous leaders in 3 areas: general actions, moral courage, fostering courage in the organization.| Triple Crown Leadership
Through effective personal development, you can improve yourself and the people around you. The benefits of systematic personal development.| GREGG VANOUREK
What is your leadership mindset? Do you have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset? What are your self-conceptions and beliefs?| Triple Crown Leadership
On the costs of social isolation and loneliness, the benefits of close relationships on our health, wellbeing, and happiness, and how to develop and maintain close relationships.| GREGG VANOUREK
How to set goals effectively. What's missing?| Triple Crown Leadership
Many people struggle with finding their purpose. It can be intimidating and confusing. Where to begin? What is purpose? How to discover it?| GREGG VANOUREK
Psychological safety, while fragile and rare, is precious and powerful. The best leaders cultivate it carefully.| GREGG VANOUREK
People-pleasing: we all do it sometimes. We put others’ needs ahead of our own. Why we people-please and how to stop it.| GREGG VANOUREK
We’ve all experienced self-doubt. We’ve questioned our capabilities and potential. Signs of it, where it comes from, its cost, and how to overcome it.| GREGG VANOUREK
Many leaders are too focused on providing answers and not enough on asking great questions. On the benefits of asking questions, plus great questions leaders should ask themselves and their direct reports—and about other stakeholders.| Triple Crown Leadership
Leadership for the long haul. Long-term leadership. Sustainable leadership. Enduring leadership that gets great results ethically.| Triple Crown Leadership
On leadership and excellence. Leadership and the excellence imperative. “Triple crown leadership” seeks excellent, ethical, enduring results.| Triple Crown Leadership
What is a vision of the good life? Why is it hard to create one? What are the benefits of having a vision of the good life? How to craft a vision of the good life?| GREGG VANOUREK
The most important aspect of leadership is integrity, because everything else leaders do flows from it. On integrity in leadership.| Triple Crown Leadership
Our daily demands can be intense. And we want to help others. To do that, we must avoid the trap of focusing too much on others’ needs.| GREGG VANOUREK
Many people aren’t clear about what they want and where they’re going. Lacking clarity is one of the most damaging traps we can fall into.| GREGG VANOUREK
Many people, including high-achievers, have an excessive attachment to recognition, praise, or success. How to overcome the trap of neediness.| GREGG VANOUREK
How spirituality and the good life are related, including the benefits of having a spiritual practice and examples of it.| GREGG VANOUREK
Good leaders make sure they don’t talk too much. They listen more and listen well. On the benefits of being a better listener and the best practices of listening, including how to build a culture of listening.| Triple Crown Leadership
Bad leadership. Toxic leadership. It's common. Why do people keep following bad leaders? What are the drivers?| GREGG VANOUREK
Giving feedback well is a powerful skill. When done well, it can be a big performance booster. On giving and receiving feedback.| GREGG VANOUREK
Avoidance. We all do it. What are you avoiding? Things end up getting worse, not better. Here's why we avoid & what to do.| GREGG VANOUREK
Most people avoid conflict. But conflict is good. Essential, in fact. Here's why. And how to manage conflict effectively.| GREGG VANOUREK
Early in my business career, I was a loner. I never connected with colleagues. Here's why leaders can't be loners. And how to connect.| Triple Crown Leadership
Fear. A terrible feeling. Something to avoid. Right? Not so fast. Fear can actually be turned into an opportunity. On overcoming fear.| GREGG VANOUREK
Are you more of a giver or taker? Too focused on yourself? On ego versus service and focusing on ourselves versus something bigger.| Triple Crown Leadership
There is immense power in small groups. But not just any small group. On the benefits of being in a small group--and best practices in running them.| Triple Crown Leadership
Two of our most precious assets in hard times are personal resilience and self-care. Here's what they are and how to develop them.| GREGG VANOUREK
One of the most powerful personal development practices we can engage in is discovering our core values—and living by them. Here’s how to discover your core values.| GREGG VANOUREK