I can recall a time as a Sports Illustrated manager some years ago when I complained to my Director that it always seemed the person I had to deal with to resolve Editorial and Advertising conflicts seemed more intent on banging heads than resolving issues. I was told, to my amazement, the Managing Editor kind […]
It is the nature of the beast for a business trainer and consultant to dwell on the negative. After all we make our money helping people turn bad news into good profit. Combine that with a hyper-awareness of the news and, even if you delight in the new direction of events, you can’t feel good […]
As one who has written many business plans and created or helped craft hundreds of goals it might seem antithetical to suggest that your best chances for success are not for your people to simply meet those goals or hit their plans but rather, when extraordinary things occur to propel accomplishment above and beyond “normal” […]
As if it wasn’t clear enough in the past our recent election cycle has given a crescendo to the binary nature of our country. Equally clear is that binary has ever more narrow crossover to the middle. Espousing either perspective often seems to both send the disagreement in equal and opposite inertia and create negative […]
In the recent conversations about the future of sports, particularly around the safety issues in playing violent games like football, there is a constant rationalization that the life lessons you learn may well be worthy of the risks. When those risks were believed limited to a balky knee or some middle age arthritis there […]
PREPARATION. It’s axiomatic. It’s essential. Yet it is also highly variable. Depending on the level of significance of a given coming encounter we generally tailor our amount and degree of preparation. Sometimes we obsess if it is important or unfamiliar or we take a casual view believing “we know this stuff.” Unfortunately, the reality can […]
Do you remember the first time you were made a boss? Was one of your anticipated enjoyments, “Now I get to tell people what to do?” Authority is a powerful thing but, of course, we all learn that having authority and being effective are very different things. I get a lot of conversations from clients […]
There’s an old success killer called “self-limiting beliefs” where our own fears or insecurities or sincere beliefs in our limitations alter our actions and become projected outwardly. This prevents us from taking stands or actions because we anticipate, and thus actualize, the outcome. We may “hope for the best” but belief isn’t easily masked and […]
In December I reached my “last straw” with Facebook when I saw in the margin a steady stream of ads mirroring my Cyber Monday purchases I had made on Amazon.com. I’m fine with designated ad space on a free site so at first I was pissed at Amazon thinking they were sharing my purchases but […]
There are plenty of posts, methodologies and suggestions about how to do and set your goals whether SMART or CASCADE or a few choice Post-it Notes on your computer screen. What there is a scarcity of is being able to test the foundations around your goals to help you assess if you are positioned to […]
