Cursed due dates
Productivity tip: don’t put a due date on any task unless you’ve actually committed to completing it by a certain date for someone. May sound …
Thriving
Your and your company’s capacity to scale, deliver, and enjoy sustainably.
Blind To It
Show me any struggle–major or minor, personal or in your organization–and I’ll show you blindness. The solutions, the road out, the way forward are simple, …
Go for the Understanding
From the “you have to slow down to speed up” department comes this reminder: seek, first, to understand the other person’s perspective. Want to get …
5 Easy Pieces of Career or Corporate Strategy
Strategy exercises–whether for your career or your organization–often fail because they are incomplete. They scratch the itch we all get to have our daily work …
Perspective is everything
How you look at anything–anything–matters. The instant you shift your perspective on any issue, the issue changes and the resolution becomes clear. You know this, …
What if you decided what success is?
If you look at it–really look at it–success for your life, career, or organization has to be what you say it is. Others do influence …
Unstick Your Strategy with an Often Ignored Type of Thinking
When getting the right strategy for you or your organization is proving difficult, it may be down to an odd way we all tend to …
Why selecting a niche is so dang hard and what you really need to do
A friend recently asked, “When you were starting did you have any difficulty pinpointing your niche?” Here’s how I answered: Selecting a niche is difficult. …
It’s not a communication problem
“We have a communications problem.” In working with people and their organizations, I often hear statements like that one. Truth is that it’s almost never …
Believe anything
Here’s a thought that can really help when you want results in business and life that have been thus far elusive: You have the absolutely …