Get a Life. Do You Have One? My colleague, Alan Weiss wrote recently on allowing the trivial many things in our lives to get in the way of the vital ‘one thing’ we should be doing or our purpose. Our life is our purpose. Everything we do, including how we do it (attitude) should help […]
When we were children, we accepted what adults said as true until about age 8. Then, we started asking a powerful question – WHY? The answer to WHY is the process or science behind what we believe. For example, when someone asks us what we believe leadership is, everyone has an answer, but what’s behind […]
A Significant Leader Does WHAT They Do Because of WHO They Are You can’t achieve your purpose, in other words, your optimal results, without knowing WHO you are first. It’s interesting, most of us don’t know WHO we are. WHO incorporates 2 questions – WHAT & WHY. WHAT we’re doing or performance, is what I […]
Have you ever lost a key team member, a business opportunity or not been paid by a client? I call these moments – that create anger, hurt, and frustration ‘defining moments’. In other words, how we respond when things don’t go our way defines WHO we really are, and distinguishes us from our competition. In […]
I’m working with a healthcare organization in a high-stakes game. They’ve invested years of their lives in education, have worked long hours, own facilities, and have many, well-paid people. They’ve ‘made it’, but how they attract patients, get paid, and fit in the market is influx. If you’re this organization, and having a 1-day leadership […]
Here are some excerpts from a New York Times article by Tony Schwartz and my comments. Addiction is the relentless pull to an activity that interferes with daily life. By that definition, nearly everyone I know is addicted to the internet. It has replaced work itself as our most socially sanctioned addiction. HERE’S A SIMPLE […]
This is the quality growth process visual. The reason organizations fail to achieve quality growth is because they fail to capture who they are and capitalize on it. How do you do that? Moving backwards, from right to left, everyone wants quality growth and has a strategy to achieve it. Before strategy though comes culture. […]
A few months ago, I worked with a client to capture their culture on paper so they could use it to innovate ways to attract more of the clients they wanted and didn’t have. It’s upside down. It’s not what you’d expect. It’s how you create space for innovation to happen… It’s a common PROBLEM […]
You’ve heard of the 80/20 Principle – there are a small number of causes (the vital few) that are responsible for a majority of the results in the world. 80/20 is a label to point-out that there are imbalances in the world. These imbalances can be 80/20, 90/10 or 70/30. . . For example, 10% […]
To help me understand an organization’s business quickly, I use a question I learned from a client. The question is ‘what are the 1 or 2 things you do exceptionally well?’ Sourcing business deals and simplifying processes is an example of an answer I’ve heard before. You may not believe your organization does anything special, […]
