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Status Quo Isn’t The Problem
Status Quo Insights I very much enjoyed Dustin Hostetler and Michael Wherry’s LinkedIn post on the dangers of Status Quo (SQ) so much that I have to add my 2 cents. I’ve become somewhat of a student of status quo because it is at the heart of resistance to any...
You Can’t Motivate Your People
Leaders Motivate Everyone knows that leaders have to motivate their people. So they do whatever they can to make it happen. Some yell and threaten. Some are cheerleaders. Some try to be best friends. Some use incentives and rewards. All in the hopes that their people...
Leaders Get Used To It
Leaders Create Motivation Firm leaders report that their people are exhausted and becoming unmotivated. This has been my experience also in my coaching calls the last few months. While I'm a believer in self-motivation, I'm also aware of the leader responsibility to...
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...
