Mr. Churchill connected truly to what was in the hearts of the British people, which is what a buoyant leader does. One of his most famous quotes is ….

As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever th….

When your people have determined that you understand their lies in their hearts and are dedicated to their functional wellbeing, they will compensate….

Buoyancy is a phenomenon whereby, as a leader, you float because the people you inspired believe that you should, because you've truly connected with….

I believe that the establishment of a real ambition, a powerfully galvanizing and exciting vision of what a group is setting out to create, is vitall….

Once you demonstrate to your team that you put them on the same plane of priority as yourself, you will create an environment, and a culture that wil….

Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error..

For so long, companies were run using a command-and-control, 'top down' hierarchical method that involved dictating down the command chain and mainta….

At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotion….

Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on….

As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast..

It is so easy to "calibrate" -that is, given the pressures on a smaller company to redefine in less ambitious terms- that which you are in business t….

Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential dif….

What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the ….

Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and t….

One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was….

True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating ….

Change management is kind of a weird concept to me. We can' t control events any more than we can control the weather. But we control how we deal wit….

As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form..

What can be seeds of destruction can also be seeds of greatness..

First, define your credo- the belief system of the organization. Secondly, define your real ambition, or where do you want to go as a collective comm….