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“You can take your leadership, your team, and your business to the next level,” I said to Cris as we connected over breakfast.
“How do you know if ‘It’s time’” he replied?
“Over the years, I’ve noticed three characteristics that indicate It’s time to go for your next level. It comes down to opportunity, DNA, and leadership.”
“What…
“Samantha* is here to help us work together as a team,” Al beamed.
Samantha gazed on plastic smiles and quiet, nodding heads. She knew their performance had been dismal. She needed to find out if they trusted each other or were just being polite.
Following appropriate niceties, Samantha went for the breakthrough exercise. “For our first activity, I want you to go around the room and tell each…
How many times have you said, “I can’t wait until…” or “I’ll be happy when I …?”
Something has zapped the happiness of our workforce. According to the 2011 version of The Conference Board Job Satisfaction Survey only 47.2 percent of the respondents reported “satisfaction.” The first year for the survey (1987) a 61.1 percent satisfaction rate was…
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. – Henry Ford
Business is good … that is to say good business is good.
Business consumes, creates, exports and then, repeats the cycle. That’s just the way it is; the nature of business. To produce…
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late, the one that is open. – Alexander Graham Bell*
Last week I began the discussion around breakthrough success and resistance, asking: “Why the resistance?” Reminding you that …
Resistance always shows up when we step up to do something new, creative, greater … something that promises a better future.
The bottom line: resistance…
In the October 18 issue of Fortune magazine they published their annual list of the “Most Powerful Women” in business. Landing the #6 slot is Oprah Winfrey; the feature article is “Oprah’s Next Act”. Patricia Sellers begins her report…
Oprah Winfrey was headed into her “la-di-da years” – her term for semiretirement –when David Zaslav came along and wrecked her grand plan. The queen of…
Wednesday I bumped my appointment for reflection to have an early morning meeting.
Thursday I bumped my appointment for reflection to apply a second coat of stain to a table we’re refinishing. Urgent, you know.
After that 90 minutes of my life (never to be recovered) was spent on e-mail; of course that allowed me to jump from one really important blog to another.
Not only did I miss-direct the…
