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Update Your Personal Owner’s Manual
Your Owner’s Manual You didn't come with an owner's manual. You learned about yourself over the years through instruction, experience and feedback, in order to make sense of it all. In effect, you have written your personal owner's manual. With it, you steer yourself...
Effective Leaders Use Push and Pull
As a leader, you have to get results. In professional service, you get results when you engage the hearts and minds of your people. Whether you are a leader of your firm, a department or a project team, if your people are struggling to function well, you need to pay...
What If It’s Not A Disruption?
Is It A Disruption? This pandemic has been labeled a huge disruption. What was normal and automatic no longer is. Whether conducting meetings, managing work or leading people, the comfortable and familiar ways just don't cut it anymore. Hence, the temptation to call...
You Can’t Have It All
All of your growth and development require sacrifice. In order to be better tomorrow than you are today, you will have to sacrifice something that costs you: time, energy, effort, personal life, sleep, and immediate preferences, just to name a few. Why? Because you...
What Are You Being Prepared For?
Disruption Produces Greatness All through history, great discoveries, inventions and innovations were conceived in the midst of or immediately following difficulty and calamity. It is a common theme throughout the ages. Ordinary people, placed in the midst of...
We’ll Change The World Together
Appreciation is Nice From last week’s Message, I received a nice comment from a reader who indicated that he appreciated the Monday Messages and gets a lot out of them. It was nice because I usually don’t hear from very many readers (you?) about whether these Messages...
It All Depends On This
Your Health Needs YOU For the last five months, the globe has been under extreme pressure caused by the pandemic. It has redefined work, tanked the economy, destroyed education and dampened social relationships. Interestingly, all the stress and anxiety people felt is...
Those Days Are Gone
Remember Those Days? Remember when you would hold off communicating with staff until you were both in the office at the same time? Remember when you could walk down the hall and quickly ascertain how your jobs were going and how your people were doing? Remember how...
What Drives Your Choices?
Choices All Day Long I've written before about making good choices here and here. Every day you make hundreds of choices and most of them are made without much conscious thought (up to 95%). That can pose a serious problem because making important choices while on...
Make The Last Mile Count
The last stretch of any lengthy activity, project or season can be the most challenging because you are at the end of your physical and mental reserves. That’s why you have to plan in order to make the last mile count. Running The Last Mile I’m not a runner but I have...
