Manage 2 Win

“It took me 28 years to realize that I needed to change my life, that my leadership skills were no longer enough,” Tom Hardison explained to our audience. His role at Hewlett Packard had changed and his youngest son had decided to drop out of school.  His very fulfilling life and successful career had diverted onto a rocky road with difficult to navigate potholes.  Things were not working as easily as before.  Tom knew he must make changes, but where?  One of the first mistakes he identified was the fact he was not really listening to his son or his wife, and fully considering what they had to say.  To breakthrough his challenges required a new set of leadership skills that would allow him to resolve new, or previously overlooked, complexities in his life.  This was true even though as an engineer, he had very strong analytical and problem-solving skills. But how to change? Tom was caught in a system of processing information and making decisions that blocked him from receiving and evaluating critical data, a