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...
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...
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...
Choices All Day Long I’ve written before about making good choices here and here. Every day you make hundreds of choices and most of them are made without much conscious thought (up to 95%). That can pose a serious problem because making important choices while...
The last stretch of any lengthy activity, project or season can be the most challenging because you are at the end of your physical and mental reserves. That’s why you have to plan in order to make the last mile count. Running The Last Mile I’m not a runner but I have...
It seems counter-intuitive that the qualities that make you great are the very ones that prevent you from improving your effectiveness. When you are in your “zone” and functioning at your best, you are awesome. But when the situation changes, the strengths you relied...