People often talk to me about having great intentions about what they want to get done on a given day or week…
But then they get to work and it all those good intentions go out the window as they deal with all the urgent crap that comes up. Read More
Every month I do a webinar, and then I do a blog post with a summary and a link to listen.
So…here is the link to
Download: BUILDING & USING YOUR NETWORK
But this month, and because this webinar was about networking,
I wanted to share a networking story about how 2 days after the webinar I met Clint Eastwood and Bill Murray…
…for the sole reason of being scared to do it, and doing it anyway. Read More
The school “report”I remember in grade school getting an assignment to do a “report” on a topic or a book. Part of the assignment was always the length.
“Make sure it’s two pages single spaced”.
Kids would struggle to make it long enough, using extra large margins, leaving a big gap under the title, and/or by writing really big. Read More
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
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
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:
Driving business results, leading change, innovating, and generally moving a business forward requires leading people. Read More
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
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
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
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
