Author: Barry Lambert
-
Leadership Development Guide: Practical Steps, Delegation & a 30/60/90 Plan
Leadership is a journey, not a destination. Whether you’re stepping into your first management role or guiding an organization through growth, the path demands deliberate practice, self-awareness, and an ability to adapt. This guide outlines practical steps, core skills, and common pitfalls to help leaders accelerate their development and sustain impact. Start with self-awarenessGreat leadership…
-
Why Leaders Should Confess: How Strategic Admissions Rebuild Trust and Accelerate Team Learning
Leadership confessions are quiet catalysts. When leaders admit mistakes, doubts, or blind spots, they risk short-term discomfort for long-term credibility. Done well, these admissions repair trust, model learning behavior, and unlock team resilience. Done poorly, they can feel performative or invite instability. Knowing which confessions matter and how to deliver them turns vulnerability into strategic…
-
Leadership Confessions: How Owning Mistakes Builds Trust, Psychological Safety, and Better Performance
Leadership confessions are short, honest admissions from people in charge: a misjudgment, a missed signal, a decision that didn’t land. When handled well, these moments become powerful tools for building trust, improving performance, and creating a culture where people learn faster than they fear failure. Why leaders should confessConfession from the top signals that imperfection…
-
How to Confess as a Leader: A 5-Step Template to Build Trust and Psychological Safety
Leadership confessions are candid admissions from people in authority about mistakes, blind spots, or moments of doubt. When handled well, these confessions become a strategic tool: they humanize the leader, model learning behavior, and create psychological safety so teams are more likely to surface problems early. Why confessions matterResearch on vulnerability shows that when leaders…
-
7 Leadership Confessions Leaders Rarely Admit — How They Build Trust
Leadership Confessions: What Leaders Rarely Admit (But Should) Most leaders present a polished front: decisive, composed, and confident. The reality is messier. Confessions from effective leaders reveal a mix of doubt, compromise, and everyday courage that rarely makes it into official statements. Acknowledging these truths creates stronger teams, deeper trust, and better outcomes. Common leadership…
-
Irrigreen 3.0 – Evolution Through Customer Feedback
Product evolution reveals a company’s commitment to continuous improvement. First-generation products establish proof of concept. Second-generation offerings refine based on real-world use. Third-generation products represent maturity, incorporating years of field experience into design decisions that address actual user pain points rather than hypothetical problems. Irrigreen’s recent release of its third-generation sprinkler head and controller demonstrates…
-
Seth Hurwitz on How to Handle Criticism and Keep Moving
Public-facing work invites opinion. In live music, that scrutiny is constant, emotional, and rarely neutral. Artists bring expectations. Audiences bring memory. Cities bring their own sense of ownership over cultural spaces. Seth Hurwitz has spent decades operating inside that pressure without allowing it to derail his judgment. As the founder and chairman of I.M.P. and…
-
Tanner Winterhof: Teaching With Humour and Honesty
Educational content often struggles with tone. Lean too technical and audiences disengage. Lean too entertaining and substance thins out. Tanner Winterhof has built a recognizable voice by refusing to choose between the two. As a co-host of the Farm4Profit podcast, he teaches business fundamentals for the agricultural industry through a style that blends humour, candor,…
-
How to Build a Morning Routine That Boosts Energy, Focus, and Productivity
Why a morning routine mattersA consistent morning routine sets the tone for the whole day. It reduces decision fatigue, increases focus, and primes your energy and mood. Whether your priority is productivity, calm, or fitness, structuring the first hour after waking makes it easier to reach goals and handle unexpected tasks. Core elements of an…
-
Leadership Confessions: How to Admit Mistakes, Build Trust, and Create Psychological Safety
Confession has a sharp edge when it comes from the top. “Leadership confessions” are deliberate admissions from leaders about mistakes, uncertainties, biases, or blind spots. When handled well, those confessions become powerful tools for building trust, accelerating learning, and creating psychological safety. When mishandled, they can erode confidence and create ambiguity. Understanding how to confess…