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Do You Ever?
Managing yourself is more than making yourself more organized and focused. You also have to manage your strengths. Why? Because when you overuse your strengths, you create your biggest problems. You get yourself in deep doo doo without anyone to blame. It’s all you....
The Lead Sled Dog
Whenever you face competing pressures, you need to know what your lead sled dog is to determine what you should do. The term comes from the dog teams that pull sleds through the snow. The lead dog is the one that determines the direction and pace for the rest of the...
The Most Difficult to Manage
Of all the things you have to manage, the most difficult is yourself. You cause yourself more grief, problems and difficulties than anything or anyone else around you. Face it—you just refuse to be managed. You know what you should do but you’re resistant. You make up...
The Pack
Here’s an important question: why would a prospective client choose you over your competition? Surely you are different from the others. What is it? Most professionals can’t answer that question. They haven’t worked through their response so they come across sounding...
Self Defeating Behavior
When I had a counseling practice, I saw many people who were their own worst enemy. They would do things that got them the opposite of what they wanted. Clinicians call this self-defeating behavior, because the behaviors people exhibit actually defeat what they really...
The Value of Synchrony
Over the weekend, I listened with interest to a commentator opine about the value of the so-called golf summit that President Obama arranged with the vice president and two republican leaders. He stated that, in the end, nothing of any value would come about as a...
Think Time
As a partner or manager, your thinking is more important than your doing. But you get so involved in your doing that you sacrifice your thinking time for doing time. The result is that you procrastinate the difficult and challenging problems because you haven’t spent...
The Lowered Bar
I do not believe that Jim Tressel began his coaching career with a vision of being in the predicament he’s in now. All indications are that he aspired to have a distinguished career marked by notable achievements with high integrity. And up until recently, this would...
Serious Professionals
All professionals struggle with the same constraint: time. It seems that there is just too much to do and not enough time to do it. If you listen to time management gurus, they try to convince you that if you do all the right things the right way, you will be able to...
Which Brain?
You’ve got an advantage over the scarecrow, who complained to Dorothy, “If I only had a brain!” You have two brains, so learn to use them both. I recently read two studies about why some people appear to be more lucky than others (psychologists will study anything)....
