Give Your Family the Gift of Your Failures
Believe in yourself! Believe in your ability to overcome failure, defeat challenges, and stamp out the urge to give up. According to child psychology research from Emory University, the greatest single gift you can offer a child or teenager is the belief that they can overcome life’s inevitable body slams and rise again. It’s called […]
Your Moment of Truth – Why Do You Run?
I’m racing against the speeding train of the future. I am trying to get to the track-switch before the speeding train of humanity arrives at the switch point. It’s vital. If the train doesn’t switch direction the track it’s on will take it right off a cliff. Fortunately I am not running alone. Millions […]
Be the Smartest Voice in the Room: Ask These Two Questions
I have been doing a lot of training of men and women leaders on the science of using the strength of both genders to create new solutions to nasty business problems. I use something I call Trans-Logical Thinking. It requires a ruthless determination to transcend the low-level trade-offs of hard logic. Hard logic is either/or […]
10 Actions For Business Success and Happiness
A few years ago I wrote a book titled Save the World and Still be Home for Dinner. The title came from a running conversation I was having with a woman executive client who was trying to start a new purpose-driven business while she raised her two young daughters, helped her aging mother and stayed engaged as […]
My Path to Profound Confidence
Last week I wrote about the importance of confidence as a high-octane fuel for leadership. In fact, it’s a make or break attribute if you’re interested in becoming a senior leader of any organization. That fact is it’s also a problem. There are people who are so confident they are made leaders of powerful organizations or have […]
Top 10 Tips for Building Your Confidence
Confidence is the engine of success. The advantages of confidence are eye-popping. Social research confirms that your personal confidence is a more accurate predictor of your success then competence. The reason is simple. Confident people learn what they need to learn and do what they need to do to overcome failures and setbacks that are […]
Why it’s Hard to Not Act Like an Idiot
Nearly every company I do consulting for these days have something in common… and it’s not good. It’s called Project Failure. Virtually everywhere I go important strategic projects are failing to be delivered on budget or on time. This is not a trivial problem. Failing to achieve vital goals puts companies’ at risk and demoralizes […]
Free Yourself – Don’t Be Invisible
In a few hours I’m leaving for Tucson to talk to 200 business owners about going beyond branding. The Convention and Visitors Bureau has asked me to come to see if I can convince the critical mass of hotel owners, restaurants, stores and attractions to adopt Tucson’s brand identity captured by the tagline phrase “Free Yourself.” […]
How to Know Who You Should Work For
Last week I received many responses to my blog, “Why You’re Stuck in a Job that’s Killing You.”Virtually all of them confirmed that my description of investor-owned companies systematically overworking their employees in order to make short-term profits was right on the money! What this sparked in me was the vivid difference between people who work […]
Why You’re Stuck in a Job that’s Killing You
Would you believe me if I told you that our economy is literally destroying financial capital that could be used to invest in innovations that would create millions of high paying, worthwhile jobs? Would you believe me if I told you that today’s CEOs are financially rewarded for incinerating the profits their employees have worked […]
