Your ready to do the work.
You know your Primary Business Focus for the year. It’s written, meaningful, and provides clarity like morning sunlight.
You invested time, thought, and energy to write S.M.A.R.T. goals.
You see what has to change to achieve your goals. What you (your team) must stop, continue, or start doing to win.
You have imagined a priority-based day. What matters is scheduled on your calendar….
I’m not an expert in grief. However, the Story is providing me with life experience.
Grief is sorrow over a loss. The higher the loss, the more profound the sorrow.
Sorrow is a feeling of distress. Sadness is caused by anxiety or pain that is felt when we lose something or someone. Sorrow comes when we’re disappointed because of unfulfilled hopes, expectations, or misfortune.
Here are my…
Dr. Lambert walked into the consultation room to meet with Mr. Jones’ family. “I’m sorry, the news isn’t good. Your Dad won’t be back.”
“But can’t we do something else?” Susan begged the doctor, “There MUST be something more…” her voice faded as she fought back the emotion of the moment.
“We’ve done everything we can…”
“But what if he rallies?” Mark interrupted, “it’s possible, right?”
Having…
Sitting in an Italian restaurant David Sedaris was having lunch with a woman named Lesley. As she pushed back her sleeve to reach for an olive he noticed a rubber bracelet on her wrist.
“Is that a watch?”
“No, it’s a Fitbit. Sync it with your computer and it tracks your physical activity.”
With a tap the thickest part turned into a dazzling show of glowing dots, “Its…
Fifer Pig builds his house of straw. Fiddler Pig builds his house of sticks. Practical Pig builds his house of brick in Disney’s Three Little Pigs cartoon.
Built and influenced by personality, three brothers build three different houses.
Fifer Pig takes the easy way, for he “toots his flute, doesn’t…
“After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years (a sunk cost if ever there was one), people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.” — Marshall Goldsmith
Last week I pointed out that future success is not always about starting something new. The question – What do you want now? – is repeated daily, season by season, with each surprise and…
“It’s lonely at the top.”
And how about where you are in your leadership journey?
In this short video (featured on Big Think), Robert Kaplan a professor at Harvard Business School talks about the need for support at the executive level.
Before you dismiss how this may apply to you, watch this 3 minute video.
What do you hear?
Sure the platform is bigger for C-Suite leaders;…
