Leadership can keep us firmly on the dance floor — responding to people, solving problems, making decisions and managing what needs our attention next.

Sometimes the most useful thing we can do is step onto the balcony.

From the Balcony is a collection of reflections on leadership, awareness, decision-making and change. It is a place to step away from the immediate activity, look at situations from a different perspective and consider what we may not have noticed while we were in the middle of them.

These reflections draw on more than twenty years of leadership experience and my continuing work in executive and leadership coaching.