Thank You!
Thank you to everyone who came out last night to make the RISE book launch such a success.
The store SOLD OUT of all their copies of RISE!
It meant so much to me to see long time friends and meet new ones. Read More
Blog
The Answers…
Confused and stuck
When I was in college studying electronic engineering I did OK in most of the classes, but some were truly baffling.
There was one class in particular where I really struggled.
I sat through all the lectures, copied down all the equations that the teacher wrote on the board and took copious notes about what he was saying – to no avail…
My study partner/friend and I would spend hours on end slogging through the homework questions in the textbook trying to learn the material. Read More
Punished for being too smart
Being the smartest one in the room is not easy. 
Really smart people who get to the answer before everyone else get frustrated because:
- No one wants to listen to you
- No one gets why you are right
- Everyone seems to WANT to go slower (and it is infuriating)
- You resent having to make the effort of “bringing people along”
Good guy or bad guy?
Read MoreLeading People in Business
The Webinar:
This month’s Business Leaders’ webinar was on Leading People in Business.
If you missed it you can download the podcast or the whole webinar which includes the presentation, and useful worksheets and templates.
(more information below)
Here is what we talked about:
Business Results
Driving business results, leading change, innovating, and generally moving a business forward requires leading people. Read More
Necessary Conflict
Stalled Progress
Two questions for you:
1. Do you have an initiative that you talk about as being really important to your business, but you are not making progress on it?
2. Have you been talking about it (without making progress) for a year or more? Read More
Do it scared…
Recently, I keep finding reasons to think about being scared. Or more specifically…
…getting reminded that being scared is OK.
Successful people spend as much (or more) time being scared as they do feeling confident and comfortable.
The difference is that they do it anyway. Read More
Ruthless Priorities & Guilt
The Webinar:
This month’s Business Leaders’ webinar was on Ruthless Priorities & Guilt.
If you missed it you can download the podcast or the whole webinar (includes presentation, worksheets and templates.
(more information below)
Here is what we talked about:
Ruthless Priorities
No one is helping you: Definining and sticking to Ruthless Priorities is one of the most important and hardest things we are asked to do as business leaders. Read More
6 common hiring mistakes
Hiring Business Leaders
I’ve recently been writing about business leadership and strategy, and I began thinking about something one of my mentors taught me about being an executive.
He said, “the most important decision you make is when you choose WHO.” Read More
Give up the Guilt
Ruthless Priorities
I often talk about the importance of Ruthless Priorities – You can download a free excerpt about this from my book, RISE.
But often, people say, “Patty, I am good at prioritizing, I do get the most important things done, but how do I deal with the guilt I feel about all the things I am not doing.” Read More
Real or Imagined Power?
The source of power
This is not a deep psychology dive on ego and power in business leadership, which is a huge topic…
But I want to share some practical observations about how good leaders build a powerful team by sharing power and others build themselves up (falsely) by imagining they can hoard power personally. Read More
