Leo Durocher, the baseball legend, made famous the statement, “Nice guys finish last.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Incompetent people finish last. Not only can nice people finish first, but more importantly, they finish better. There is ample evidence that you can do well by doing right. Research has shown that when leaders...Read More
How Can You Make Success Certain? Living your life with a bug-free mind goes a long way in removing barriers to personal and professional growth. As humans, we accumulate a set of beliefs over the years. We usually aren’t even aware of them. Mixed in with good beliefs are also some bad beliefs we’ve picked...Read More
The Key To Creating An Atmosphere Of Inspiration Trust is a universal need. It is important whether you are leading or following. Leaders cannot lead without the trust of their teams. On the other hand, leaders will not be able to lead unless they trust their teams. In a study of 32,000 employees in large...Read More
What Has Become Irrelevant In Corporate Culture? There has been much written and said about the shifting workforce. We see the Millenial generation (1983-2001), entering organizations at an amazing rate, while at the same time Baby Boomers (1946-1964), are retiring. In our research that involved multiple corporations and thousands of managers and Millennials, we identified...Read More
Why Is It So Difficult and What Does It Have To Do With Resilience? Let’s start with a self-assessment. This week did you… *procrastinate more than you wish you did? *exercise less than you wish you did? *eat more than you wish you did? *think more negatively than you wish you did? *react more unkindly...Read More
Do you remember what you did the first hour of every school day? You went to your Homeroom. In doing so you would enter your day slowly. You would catch up with friends and get a couple of things done so you could focus on the day before you. Those days are long gone. Most...Read More
Does The Persona Reflect The Person? When Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion finally met up with the mighty Wizard, they were intimidated by his presence. He was big and powerful and confident and wise. But then they discovered something that surprised them. Inside the mighty Wizard of Oz was a little man pulling a...Read More
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” Albert Einstein We manage time, waste time, spend time, save time. We wish the time would come. We wish the time would pass. We see time fly. We feel time drag. We watch clocks and carry calendars, creating the illusion that we...Read More
The Key To Strengthening Your Network The Berlin Wall was built with a purpose in mind. The high wall, the barbwire at the top, and the “Keep Out” signs plastered everywhere removed all doubt of its intent. DO NOT ENTER! Humans are great at building walls, especially the emotional kind that keep people out. It...Read More
The study of happiness goes back thousands of years. So much of it deals with the human brain. The experts—neurologists–remind us that the brain is still a mystery. Yet it is helpful at a layman’s level to understand some basic things about the way our brains function in relationship to happiness. For the past few...Read More
