Adsum Insights Blog

I like to begin coaching work with new clients exploring a couple tangible aspects of how they're leading.

I first check to see if they can state a clear, compelling "preferred future" they are...

An executive I had worked with in the past recently accepted a larger, more challenging role as a Go-to-Market (GTM) VP reporting to the Chief Revenue Officer.

The company is a 500+, pre-IPO...

All companies have leaders.

What is less obvious is that all companies also have a "leadership system." 

That system is either repeatably developing and producing quality leaders or it's...

This is the fourth article in my Leader as Teacher series.

Part 1 outlined 1) why it's important for leaders to teach (develop the next generation of leaders), 2) what they should teach (values,...

This is the third article in my Leader as Teacher series.

Part I outlined 1) why it's important for leaders to teach (helping the next generation of leaders learn), 2) what they should teach...

This is the second article in my Leader as Teacher series.

Part I outlined 1) why its important for leaders to teach (helping the next generation of leaders learn), 2) what they should teach...

Consider these two, somewhat challenging statements:

The leadership ranks in any organization are constantly churning with exits, promotions, and new hires joining. Every leader knows that a big...

You see a big opportunity, a new level you aspire to play at.

They say what got you here won't get you there. 

Leaders I know who have made the leap describe it as requiring a new way of...

This is the fourth article in a series about the inner paradigms that shape how we...see, navigate, make sense of, and carve success in the world. 

If it's true that "what got you here, won't...

This is the third article in a series about the inner paradigms that shape how we...see, navigate, make sense of, and carve our success...in the world. 

If it's true that "what got you here,...

This is the second in a series of articles about the inner paradigms that shape how we...see, navigate, make sense of, and carve our success...in the world. 

If "what got you here, won't get...

A popular coaching trope is "What got you here won't get you there." 

If true, it begs two questions.  Here is the first: what must I change? 

The famed coach Marshall Goldsmith...