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Keep Your Oar In The Water
You’re On The Team One of the great analogies that aptly describes a professional service firm is that of a crew boat. If you are on the team, you must keep your oar in the water or else you are simply cargo being carried along by the others who are furiously rowing...
You Learn Best When
Learn To Engage Constraints On your way to excellence and growth, you must engage constraints and challenges that require more of you than what you have experienced to date. You learn best when you practice three disciplines consistently. A Good Example A good example...
How You Define The Problem
Your Career Professional service is about applying a knowledge-based, technical discipline to solve problems. That's your career as a professional—you use your technical knowhow to solve problems that people pay for. Not bad. But what you may not appreciate is how...
When You Are Stuck
As you know, I coach Professionals to break through the barriers that hold them back. And having coached hundreds of professionals over the years, I’ve observed some things that may be helpful to you. Why You Are Stuck Your professional career is built on rises and...
Is The Sky Really Falling?
A friend of mine forwarded an article published by Harvard Business Review entitled, “How to Manage Stress When the Sky is Falling.” The author is Michael Gervais, a high-performance psychologist whose list of clients include top athletes, musicians, artists and CEOs...
I Hired A Technician
My Experience In an earlier day, before I knew better, I had an experience that I will never forget. It taught me that, instead of an advisor, I hired a technician. A gift of stock was given to me by an old, living relative. Being ever thankful, it was enough to...
Rise To Your Occasion
Interesting Times You have heard ad nauseum the same descriptions used to describe the last couple of months. I wrote about them last week here. But I prefer to use “unusual” or “interesting” times. Words like these aren’t negatively loaded and allow you to rise to...
Remember What You DO Know
For the last couple of months, the same words have dominated our vocabulary: uncertainty, anxiety, fear, what we don’t know, etc. And because they are repeated over and over again in our conversations and news reporting, our perception of the current situation is...
Things That Are Not Cancelled
A Leader Mindset When my friend Jim sent me his response to last week’s Monday Message about taking charge and looking for the opportunities in this crazy time, you could see his leader mindset rise up. For instance, in response to all the cancellations as a result of...
Awesome Leader Thinking
In a recent coaching meeting, I met with a leader who had every reason to feel defeated. Instead, she exhibited awesome leader thinking. Here’s how it went. Could It Be Worse? As a result of the coronavirus, she said, "Our business is all about meeting and connecting...
