Captain Fletch coming to you from the comfort of my air-conditioned home at the end of one of the hottest summers in recent years in Las Vegas! Grab your coffee cups and pull up a tailgate. It’s time for another edition of the Leadership Toolbox.
Last month, we discussed how leaders must establish team culture and how the soundtrack in the locker rooms of our favorite sports teams can teach us something about broadening team culture. This month, I wanted to discuss something I like to call leadership fad diets. No, I am not talking about the juice cleanses my wife tries to get me to ingest every so often. (If you are reading this, honey, they’re the best!) I mean the wealth of leadership books, programs and other generally trademarked tools marketed to leaders as the solution to leadership problems, and the leaders who buy into them. I know this column is a leadership column, but I wouldn’t claim my leadership theories, thoughts, experiences, etc. as the solution to all your problems.