Every leader I talk with, coach or train tell me the same thing. They all tell me they have lots to do – more than they did six months or a year ago, with no end in sight. I could write a post about the factors that lead that to be true, but that isn’t this post. [...]
This week’s Resource Recommendation: Bury My Heart at Conference Room B: The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Committed Managersby Stan Slap. This is fast becoming one of the most talked about business books of the year, and for some very good reasons. It discusses in a new way a very important topic – what are the [...]
We all meet new people, in all phases of our lives. In some of those situations we may not be consciously thinking about the importance of making a good first impression; however, conscious or not, we are always making an impression. Sometimes – be it the person we are meeting, the situation we are in [...]
I just read this tweet from @tim_hurson: ”Develop a vivid image of your goal. If you don’t know what Waldo looks like, how will you know you’ve found him?” You’ve surely seen the Where’s Waldo? posters, books and more (if not, here is the official site). The goal of each is to find Waldo amongst [...]
Yesterday I read an article in the online New York Times, titled Digital Device Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime. While I encourage you to read the article, the title gives you the message. I couldn’t have cited the research included, but nothing in the piece surprised me at all. Then, last night on the NBC [...]
This week’s Resource Recommendation: Making Vision Stick by Andy Stanley Andy Stanley is an author and the founding senior pastor of a large church in Atlanta. He speaks about leadership from personal experience which is perhaps the most striking part of this book. In this great book, Andy talks about the ultra important topic of [...]
What images, thoughts and feelings come to mind when you think of or hear the word “salesperson”? Stereotypical, slick-talking, used car sales people Well-spoken financial manager The guy everyone loves who sells his wares on the golf course Whether you have positive thoughts and feelings about salespeople or decidedly un-positive, the purpose of this article [...]
As leaders we are taught to be on the lookout for dissatisfaction. We learn quickly that dissatisfaction is the cause of many negative results: it causes people to leave; it causes people to become disgruntled; it causes problems of all sorts. Because of these lessons we learn to look at dissatisfaction as something to avoid, [...]
By now you’ve read or heard something about Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who, after an altercation with a passenger, left the plane on an emergency slide at JFK airport on Monday. (If you haven’t heard anything, or want to read and see more, check out this page.) If you have seen or heard [...]