Buzzzzz Up a Little
When our buzz is low, we can’t leap to the high buzz we want. Frustrated to Elated, for example, is too big of a jump. …
Leading
Tips and Insights about influencing people toward shared goals.
Curate Expectations
What we expect to happen tends to happen. No sense in expecting the worse, then, eh? It’s time we start to curate our expectations. …
Hate, Anger, Blame
If we react to what we see happening around us with hate, anger, or blame (no matter how righteous), we will only prolong what we’re …
Generate Results in Meetings
We might push, posture, protect, or prattle to get results in a meeting. Or we can let go, listen, learn, and lean in. Which aprroach …
Others’ Behavior
We spend way too much time and energy trying to get others to behave so that we feel better. Far better is to find a …
Pump
Destructive leadership rations energy. Productive leadership pumps energy into everyone freely. To share so much, we first have to find and tap for ourselves a …
Don’t Look Back
The sages tell us that all our power is in the present. Any time we spend regretting, blaming, or trying to figure out stuff in …
We Have the Tools
The way out of this mess is not argument, denial, criticism, or righteousness. That only stirs up their defenses and prolongs the pain. We need …
To Achieve, Believe
Sure, we need vision, strategy, and execution. But these alone won’t do. No vision, strategy, or execution survives its first encounter with reality. To navigate …
Fair Enough
Evidence seems to say that we get what we believe, not what we merely fear, love, wish for, or even work hard to get. Fair …