How to take over for a “bad leader” and get off on the right foot with your new team and organization.

In 1980, the novice U.S. Hockey Team won the gold medal in the Lake Placid Olympics, beating the heavily favored Soviet Union team, who had won the gold 4x running. You can hire all the dazzling talent in the world, but without solid teamwork, you simply cannot win.

One of the great challenges of identifying leaders with the potential for success is looking beyond the sum of their experience to truly understand the approach they’ll bring to guiding their teams and shaping their organizations.

Most of us have a well-formed idea of what it’s going to take to make us happy, and that may not include social isolation and homeschooling our kids. But if we could just relax and accept our current reality, would we be able to find the joy in it?

What makes a choice hard, according to TED Talker Ruth Chang, is the presence of two equally weighted options. If one choice were clearly better than the other, the decision would not be hard at all.

You'll hear a lot of entrepreneurs say, "being good at failure is the key to success."

Take Sir James Dyson. After 5,126 failed prototypes and 5 long years, he was still determined to invent a better vacuum cleaner.

Patent 5,127 on his list became the best-selling bagless vacuum in the US.

The best leaders are good at humble listening. They admit when they don’t know and they tap into ways to learn.