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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...