The Numina Blog

There’s a lot of generic advice that circulates around becoming a strong leader: hire people smarter than you are, read autobiographies from major CEO’s, wake up at 5 am. While these can all help advance your skills as a leader, they aren’t particularly useful if...

Often in society we are taught to praise individuals who exhibit signs of extreme intelligence or giftedness. As students we attend assemblies where awards are given to those with the highest GPA. As athletes MVP awards are handed to record beating athletes that show...

As children, we’re often asked what it is we would like to be once we’re older. Often we respond with jobs we deem as heroic  or display some sort of artistic talent like firefighter, ballerina, or major league baseball player. As the years pass we continue to repeat...

It’s not rare to find in your team a personality that is overly aggressive.  These folks can be particularly difficult to manage, as they often encounter a great deal of pushback or push away from fellow team members. However, this aggression is a powerful tool that...

Often, when dealing with an overly confident team member or leader, our first reaction is to want to take the individual down a peg or two. Over confidence (or what may be viewed as arrogant, superior, entitled, trying too hard) is actually a feeling of inferior. The...

Great leaders we have had the privilege of coaching know how to use fear for growth. Weak people sometimes think it smart to use another person’s fear to get what we want out of them or keep them down in some way. Try that for too long and watch the negative...