Last week I wrote a post titled Do We Nurture or Build Relationships? I was trying to distinguish between nurture and build as concepts, and I think I was pretty successful. The wise commenters talked about building relationships and then nurturing them once formed. They are of course, correct AND their comments reminded me of an important [...]
If you read my newsletter or follow this blog, hopefully you know about our big Remarkable TV online event next week, Tuesday March 16th from 11 am – 3 pm ET. It is called Coach and Be Coached and is designed to help all of us reach higher levels of performance through, coaching and being [...]
This week’s Resource Recommendation – Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business without Losing Your SelfBy Alan M. Webber
Among other things, Alan Weber has served as Editor of the Harvard Business Review and is the co-founder of Fast Company magazine. In this book he has taken his experiences from these roles [...]
Spiderman, Wonder Woman and Superman all had super powers; they had special skills that allowed them to be super heroes.
They had great powers given to them at birth that made them special. Generally speaking, they didn’t have to develop those powers, they just had them. We too were born with tremendous skills, but unlike like [...]
The first thing I remember purchasing with my own money that I earned was a basketball.
As a boy, when I wasn’t working on the farm, often I was shooting baskets. While my high school career stalled for a variety of reasons (being small, 5′9″, and having mononucleosis as a sophomore didn’t help!), I’ve always loved [...]
Yesterday I had the chance to speak with a group of aspiring leaders – high school freshmen from west central Indiana. Early in my session I asked them to write a definition or description of leadership in exactly six words. After they had done that individually, I split them into 3 teams to share their [...]
I promise there are valuable messages in this post – bear with the first couple of paragraphs, ok?
It is after midnight on Wednesday. I’m sitting at my kitchen table writing this blog post in part, because I can’t sleep. It is rare that I can’t sleep when I choose to. Tonight (well, this morning) it is because I [...]
I’ve been writing and telling people for a long time that we can all be leaders and that the exciting fact is that leaders can make a difference in the world. Who wouldn’t want to make a difference in the world?
While I still believe everything in the last paragraph with my whole heart, I’ve been [...]