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One Thing HPs Do Well
One of the advantages I have in working with high performers is I get to see how they think and what they do. For instance, they seem to be able to work through problems as they arise and keep making progress. Specifically, when they get to a point in their work where...
Bring Your A-Game
You don’t have to read many of these Monday morning messages to know that I’m a personal responsibility guy. I believe it, coach it, expect it and live it. Actually, it’s the only way to remain sane and motivated. While it’s easy to blame your lack of motivation on...
Support A Champion
Everyone talks about how important it is to be a leader because your leadership development is so important. However, since everyone can't be a leader all the time, sometimes you need to be the one being led. When someone else is leading, how do you react? Do you fall...
3 Views of a Leader
Leadership isn’t a promotion along your career track. Your tenure has nothing to do with leadership. Expertise, experience, and being liked are not qualifications for effective leadership. In fact, I’ve seen leaders with these attributes actually fail because when the...
Make Yourself Indispensable
Professionals want to be indispensable. It’s how you do it that matters. You may choose to do so by hoarding your expertise, thinking that you have an advantage on knowledge and skill. So you won’t take the time to teach and coach others to do what you do. You give...
Hard To Lose A Client
Like most professionals, retaining clients is important to you and you work at it. In fact, you may even put up with more than you should, but that’s another conversation. The point is that client retention is foremost on your mind. But truth be told, it’s really not...
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...
