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 [...]
Last July, I wrote a post about the dancing man (a popular YouTube video), and some leadership lessons from it. This morning I read (and saw) Derek Siver’s TED talk from this week based on the same video. (If you would like to read the transcript of Derek’s talk, you can find it here.) Derek makes [...]
Watch this video, and take the action I suggest – it might be your most important leadership activity of the day – and I might make you smile too!
Tomorrow Drew Brees will lead the New Orleans Saints into the NFC Championship Game against the Minnesota Vikings. While I am biased as a fellow Purdue Alumni, I believe that Drew is among the top passers (a skill) and best quarterbacks (a range of skills and behaviors, including leadership) in the league. While his numbers [...]
I read something recently that me thinking about a challenge you may have as a leader that you haven’t even thought about, at least not recently. I talk about it on this video – created with my Livescribe pen. I hope you will watch, listen, and learn. Then I hope you will give me some [...]
New Year’s Day is the day many people – 40-45% of Americans according to the last research I read – set New Year’s Resolutions. While some people do succeed with Resolutions, too many people don’t – which frustrates them and sets up a cynical view of goal setting overall. (Even though, as you will see [...]
Jim Rohn, who called himself a “Business Philosopher”, was revered by millions, and is created for launching or significantly aiding a generation of personal and professional development masters (Mark Victor Hansen , Anthony Robbins, Jack Canfield, and Brian Tracy to name just a few), passed away a week ago today. Though I never met Jim, [...]
Because we are passionate about helping you reach your goals – and because this is the time of the year many people start thinking about their goals in earnest – I created a list of questions I hear and/or get asked about goal setting and goal achievement. I also created a list of questions that [...]
How many times have have you heard someone say, “Don’t reinvent the wheel?” Late last week I read Peter Shankman’s HARO email service that Psychology Today magazine wants you to do exactly that. Here’s their request and your opportunity: CREATIVITY CHALLENGE: CAN YOU REINVENT THE WHEEL? Show us your reinvention of the wheel, by doing [...]
I’m not talking about a lullaby. I’m talking about our productivity! This video speaks directly to all of us as leaders, I’m trying to wake you from your slumber and get you to think about what you don’t think about. It is those unconscious things – the habits, the processes the things we’ve-always-done-that-way that I’m [...]