Weekly Posts and Insights
Accountability Makes People Uncomfortable
HB Weekly Leadership Brief
Week of March 9, 2026
Every organization eventually reaches a moment where the systems are in place, the plans are written, and the resources have been invested — yet progress still stalls. At that point, the issue is rarely about strategy. It is leadership.
Lead at the Right Altitude (Stop proving. Start scaling.)
What am I still doing because it makes me feel valuable, but actually limits our growth and my effectiveness as a leader?
Most executives don’t struggle with effort. We struggle with identity. For many of us, our early career success came from outworking others, doing it ourselves, being detail obsessed and fixing what others couldn’t (or didn’t want to). Gold Star! That’s how we got here. But that same identity becomes dangerous at scale.
Empowering People Too Early (And Why It Backfires)
A practical leadership guide to the IEE Continuum—Include, Engage, Empower—and why empowering employees too early leads to failure and frustration. Learn how to develop supervisors, managers, and rising leaders through intentional modeling, coaching, and earned autonomy. Includes real-world scenarios for applying the IEE model to performance conversations, meetings, and cross-department projects.
Millennials with Matt Episode 8: The Right and Wrong Way To Empower Millennials
So often we move right to empowerment of employees, when we really be thinking about how do we carefully hand over duties and responsibilities at a healthy rate (much like handing over the keys to a new driver). Matt Harrington, generations specialist, talks in this video about the right and wrong way to empower the Millennial generation