Once I ran into a burning building to save a robot. Impressed?

You know what a leadership consultants do? They take what little skill you have so far, and they make it something worthwhile.  Something that can change who you are, how you shake hands, how you yell at employees. Corporate coaching should change this.

Leadership development, as much as I wish it could, can't be developed in a one hour seminar.  Maybe a two hour seminar...but a one hour is pushing it.  To lead you need a few things.  First you need some sort of vision.  You need to know where you're going.  This applies to driving to a store, and to taking a company public.  As the Bible warns; Where there is no vision, the people perish - especially in Pittsburgh.  The next thing you're going to need, and an executive coach may or may not tell you this, but it is nonetheless true; you need integrity.  People are drawn to leaders who are honest, and who are worth more than a series of feel good words.  Leadership challenges are varied and complicated, and if you are missing integrity and vision, you are going to not get anywhere fast, and likely when you look behind you no one will be following.


Leadership development in a company can take it from the red to the black, and even better; from the black, to the more black.  Like black hole black.  Super super black.  So much black you won't know what to do with it. 

Historically speaking, most good leaders own a sword.