Motivation is Personal
Money is the easiest and least personal way to motivate people (if you have money). If you don’t, you need to get down to the real business of making people actually care about what they are working on. Read More
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Personal Recognition or Money?
Money is the easiest and least personal way to motivate people — that is, if you have money.
Why people care
If you don’t have money, you need to get down to the real business of making people actually care about what they are working on. Read More
Visible, but not annoying
.Your Brain on Stress…
Managing Energy
One thing no one ever tells you about executive positions…
…is that a big part of success is simply surviving them!
As a leader it is vitally important that you maximize the energy you bring to your work.
When your energy is low, you are just not very good at your job. Read More
Defending your Time – 10 Ideas (plus podcast)
10 IDEAS FROM THE WEBINAR:
DEFENDING YOUR TIME
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Time Challenges
1. Everyone is too busy. The most successful people were not the ones who were less busy along the way. They figured out how to get the most important, valuable stuff done even though they were overwhelmed with work too. Read More
Motivating Virtual Teams
Getting your whole team in the same room these days is rare.
So how do you create a sense of team?
And how do you motivate people you can’t spend time with in person?
Thank you for your ideas
This article includes some thoughts from my first blog post ever! Read More
Make Better Hires (great story)
Creative Thinking vs. Job Skills
OK, so I am stealing a story I read about 15 years ago in an airline magazine.
If anyone out there recognizes it and can help me attribute this please let me know!
Solve this problem…
Here is the story. Read More
Aristotle on Personal Branding
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not
an act but a habit.” –Aristotle
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Consistent Behaviors
I am always talking about how Brand is about consistent behaviors.
In fact, I just was interviewed by a Forbes Magazine editor for 90 minutes on this topic. Read More
Leading a High-Performing Team (10 Ideas)
10 IDEAS FROM THE WEBINAR
LEADING A HIGH-PERFORMING TEAM
Motivating High Performance
1. Who cares? You need to motivate your team to want to be a high performing team. We talked about how to create meaning for the work so people will be personally motivated to care, and want to step up. Read More
What jobs are valuable?
Adding Value
I am always talking about “adding more value” or “working at a higher level of value”.
How do you know if what you are working on is valuable? Are some jobs more valuable than others?
What is valuable?
One of my favorite stories I read in a book long ago, was about a a CEO of a bank who walked in one day, and saw a young intern looking dejected in the bank lobby. Read More
