Below I’ve compiled the top 10 posts of 2017. You can also view the Top 10 list from past years.

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How Leaders Learn to Lead

How do people learn to become great leaders? The answer may surprise you.

Stress Test Your Leadership

If your leadership role is stressing you out, this is probably a good place to start. Better yet, use these tips to limit the amount of stress you let in.

5 Ways to Take the Pain Out of Giving Feedback

Giving feedback might put a knot in your stomach, but it’s one of your most important responsibilities as a leader.

Dealing in Hope

“It’s the size of your hope that will determine how far you will go in life.” – John Johnson. Grow your hope, grow your effectiveness.

12 Crucial Questions to Better Decision-Making

Decision-making is a mental muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets.

When to Coach… and When Not To

Sometimes coaching can make all the difference. Other times it’s counter-productive. Here’s how to tell.

Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word

Apologizing is never easy. It’s also the key to new levels of effectiveness, both for you and your organization.

Simplify or Petrify

In an increasingly complex environment, simplicity is becoming an art form. The easier it is to follow you, the more people will.

Leading Older Employees with Confidence

Do you care, can I trust you and can you get the job done? Age aside, that’s what team members really want to know.

The Person on the Other End of Your Leadership

Leadership causes a ripple effect – or in some cases a tidal wave. How are the people in your wake?

Nathan Magnuson is a leadership consultant, coach, trainer and thought leader. Receive his ebook Trusted Leadership Advisor by subscribing to his website or follow him on Twitter.

Here are the top 10 posts from 2013.

What a Leadership Coach Won’t Do For You

If a leadership coach won’t solve your problems or tell you what you should do, what’s the point in having one? Read more to find out!

Who Cares About Your Strengths?

If you care about your own strengths, do something 8 million other leaders have done – take Gallup’s StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment.

What People Want: 8 Things Money Can’t Buy

We all know that some things are priceless. But what are they exactly? Learn the 8 things Zig Ziglar identified that ALL people want.

What a Rock Star Taught Me About Perseverance

Whether you want to be a rock star, a better leader, or simply more successful, you’re getting nowhere without perseverance. This article was picked up by the Ziglar Newsletter and Personal Excellence Magazine.

What the Communist Party Got Right About Leadership

You probably already know what you think about Communism. What you may not know are the impressive leadership methods they used.

It Doesn’t Matter How Much You Care

Someone has a problem. You have a solution. You care. They don’t. So what do you do? Don’t be a hero. Take these 3 suggestions instead.

But What If I Can’t Delegate?

Just when we think we have delegation down, things fall apart. Isn’t there a way to manage a project without micro managing each person?

3 Simple Ways to Determine Hiring Fit

When was the last time you hired a new person to join your team? Did you find the right person? If not, use these questions next time.

Mentoring 101

Unless you know everything about everything, it might be a good idea to spend time with a mentor. Mentors help us go further faster.

The Main Reasons Strategic Planning Fails

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. So why doesn’t everyone have a strategic plan? Here are the reasons many strategic plans fail.

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New Employee Onboarding: The Honeymoon Phase

Apparently many folks have either been starting new jobs or preparing for new employees to join them because this post quickly became the most viewed post on the site.

Favorite Books on Leadership

Who doesn’t love a good book list? This post continues to get new visitors nearly every day. Each book includes an outgoing link to check it out on Amazon.

Three Keys to Sustaining Culture Change

I had so much fun working on this that I had to write about it.

What’s the Big Deal About Employee Engagement?

I still believe that if you give employees what they want most, they’ll give you everything they have in return. Here are some tips on how to do that.

The Cost of Unclear Expectations

This was the very first post of this site – a short idea, but one I have been committed to for quite some time.

The Felix Baumgartner Guide to Living on the Edge

Did you get to see Fearless Felix’ dive from 128,000 feet in October? If not, relive both the event and the life-lessons.

Resilience and the Pan Am Flight 73 Hijacking

Tragedy impacts every leader at some level over the course of a lifetime. From the words of the psychologists to the survivors of the PanAm flight 73 hijacking, “you have the power to overcome.”

How to Complete an Individual Development Plan

Corporate America is investing more and more money and effort into official individual development planning programs. Here are the IDP basics.

The Courage to Lead

This post highlights the leadership lessons I’ve learned about courage both in the military and consulting national security and intelligence agencies. Courage isn’t for the special few, it’s for everyone. We need courage now more than ever.

The Three Leadership Questions I Always Ask

Where do you start when you get into a leadership conversation? This is what I do.

Nathan Magnuson is a leadership consultant, coach, trainer and thought leader.  Receive his ebook Trusted Leadership Advisor by subscribing to his website or   follow him on Twitter.