Great results don’t just happen. You don’t usually drift to a destination you would have chosen. Instead, you have to be intentional, force yourself to get clear on what you want and why it’s important, and then pursue a plan of action that accomplishes your objective. Sometimes, this involves setting an achievement goal with a […]
How to Ensure You Never Have Another Terrible Meeting
One Resource to Help You Stay Focused and Get Results
Ask leaders about the most efficient way to be inefficient, and I bet most will say “bad meetings.” But the hard truth is that meetings are not only inevitable, they’re also essential. Why? If our teams are going to achieve major goals, we need to be able to plan, coordinate, and tackle problems together. The […]
How to Take Responsibility after a Major Mistake
4 Steps to Get Your Life Back on Track
One key to leadership is being willing to take responsibility for your mistakes. Good leaders do this even when they’re guilty of only 10 percent of the problem or accusation. But the truth is we’ve all had cases where we’ve been guilty of the whole enchilada, right? I once had a teammate—this was years ago […]
How to Win Big in a Constantly Changing Marketplace
8 Ways to Stay Relevant, Expand Your Skills, and Thrive
In her book The Future and Its Enemies, Virginia Postrel classifies people as either stasists or dynamists. Stasists resist change and try to tightly manage it. Dynamists, on the other hand, embrace change. They see the future as wide open and teeming with possibility. Which of the two are you? I ask because nothing is […]
How to Use Activation Triggers™ to Reach Your Goals this Year
A Simple Formula That Virtually Guarantees You Will Finally Succeed
More than a decade ago, I decided I needed to get back into regular exercise. I was overweight and tired of feeling exhausted. I needed to do something. But like everyone else, I was busy. I had a habit goal I wanted to install: Exercise for thirty minutes, Monday through Friday, at 6:00 a.m. There […]
The Fine Line Between Working Hard and Letting Go
Plus the Simple Heuristic I Use to Know When to Press in and When to Back Off
In life, we have to learn there is a fine line between working hard and forcing an outcome that isn’t meant to be. Sometimes we have to let go and simply trust.