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Be an Energy Source
It’s Monday morning and time to get after it. Another week for more opportunities to solve complex problems, serve challenging clients and practice your profession. Life couldn’t be better. You’re good at it; you love it and you live it. Is that what you think about...
Raise The Bar On Yourself
One of my fundamental convictions is that you have significant contributions to make. When you’re at your best, you make them. When you aren’t, you don’t. So I continue to press you to find your optimal best today, while using today’s best as a stepping stone for...
How You Think Matters
“With all due respect, I believe this will be our finest hour.” Sound familiar? It’s one of the best lines in the 1995 movie, Appolo 13 with Tom Hanks. It was said in the control room by the actor playing Gene Kranz when he overheard a couple of engineers discussing...
Your Lingering LIst
In last week’s message, I recommended that you take action to get the result you want rather than take a “wait and see” approach and then settle for however it works out. When I wrote it, I had in mind some of my clients and acquaintances who tend to delay action. I...
Hate “Wait and See”
How many times do you hear, “Let’s just wait and see what happens.” It’s especially spoken when you don’t know what to do or there is no clear advantage of one option over another. But regardless, you put yourself in a terrible position with a “wait and see” position....
Drifting or Dedicated?
In one more month you will be half way through your year. Looking back on your goals, how are you doing? Are you on track? Do you need to step it up? (Of course I’m assuming you set them already.) You won't be the person you aspire to be if you don’t put forth much...
Space Owner or Place Holder?
One of the frustrations I hear from firm leaders is when their professionals won’t step up, be responsible and make suggestions and decisions that are theirs to make. Instead, their staff rely too much on others to pick up the slack. That one void in their staff makes...
You Must Self-Regulate
Recently I read a comparative study on high performer research that found a common trait among the studies: high performers get things done. It’s no surprise that accomplishment has become a recognized criterion in determining high performance. This one factor caught...
When Your Best Isn’t
What do you do when doing your best isn’t good enough? You do the usual best things and put forth your usual best efforts but they don’t achieve what you’re pursuing. Then what? Should you expect more of yourself? From others? Or should you just shrug your shoulders...
Factory Foreman Isn’t Enough
The research is clear on what engages professionals: learning, developing and growing. These are absolutely critical to knowledge workers (FYI: that’s you and your colleagues). That means MANDATORY, not optional. That’s what separates 21st century professionals from...
