High Standards, Harsh Voice: When Excellence Turns Against You
There’s a conversation happening in every leader’s mind.
It’s constant. It’s fast. And often, it’s far more critical than anything you would ever say out loud to your team.
For high-achieving professionals, this internal dialogue is often framed as discipline, accountability, or a commitment to excellence.
But more often than we admit, it’s something else entirely.
It’s self-talk t...
Psychological Safety Starts With You
Psychological safety is often discussed as a team dynamic, a cultural aspiration, or an organizational goal.
And it is all of those things.
But at its core, psychological safety is a leadership behavior, modeled, reinforced, and sustained through how leaders show up, especially when it matters most.
In the first two newsletters in this series, we explored what psychological safety is...
Where Strategy Meets Humanity: Aligning Culture, Ownership, and Leadership with Nicole Jones-Gerbino.
Strategy is rarely the problem.
Most leaders know how to set direction, define priorities, and articulate a vision. Yet even the most thoughtful strategies can stall once they meet the reality of people, pressure, and competing demands.
Execution is where leadership is tested.
In this week's episode of The Growth Edge Leadership Podcast, Laurie Baedke sits down with Nicole Jones-Gerbino f...
