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You’ve heard the adage, “No one on their deathbed had ever said, ‘I wish I had spent more time at the office.’”

When someone asks you, “How are you?” what’s your typical response?

When you’re building a team of top talent, how do you get all your stars to work together?

When you consistently lead with humility, you’ll achieve greater influence with those inside and outside your organization

Perhaps the most dangerous obstacle to long-term leadership success is the “ego trap.”

In July 2011, my friend and business partner, Bill Straub gathered the leaders of our organization together for lunch and told us he had pancreatic cancer.

Everyone--from the child who refuses to go to the dark basement to the entrepreneur poised to spend millions of his investor’s money--knows what it’s like to be frozen in fear. We allow the uncertainty ahead of us to paralyze our judgment and stifle our resolve so that we’re stuck, afraid to take the step toward our goals.

“Why?” I asked one of our strategic partners about a client who’d dropped us after six years of nurturing our relationship with him.

Most business leaders I know are men and women of action, and I’m no exception. I consider this a good quality. But in my haste to be decisive and take action, I often run right into an unnecessary and unanticipated conflict.

In my previous article, "Why Leaders Should Embrace Transparency, Not Fear It," I introduced Integrity as No. 6 of the “Great 8” leadership virtues and talked about how a key indicator of integrity is transparency.