How Fast or Slow is Success?
Steve Martin, describing his success as a stand-up comedian, says, “The course was more plodding than heroic; I…took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive …
Thriving
Your and your company’s capacity to scale, deliver, and enjoy sustainably.
The Four Reasons We Get Stuck
If any success for our organizations or ourselves seems elusive, then we benefit greatly if we can see what’s stopping us. Sometimes we get stuck …
Five Steps to Set and Hit Goals For Real This Year (Even Those You’ve Failed at Before)
Setting goals at the start of the year is good and necessary. Yet our goals often seem tinged. While we may say things like, “This …
Choose Something
Success demands we first clearly declare what we want to achieve. Yet we are often afraid to do that. We worry that we will be …
Evolving Our Leadership
As our organizations grow, we must shift. If we hold too long to the methods that got us here, we will strangle our organizations. So we move …
Grumpy About Success
It is easy to get grumpy about success. After all, if success is supposed to be simple, why is it so elusive? Why isn’t it …
Discover For Yourself
Don’t push yourself to do all the things on your growing to-do list. Don’t be driven by other people’s opinions. Trust yourself and others. Go for true …
Avoid Failure by Not Fixing Others’ Flaws
When we see poor performance, we judge the capabilities of the person who was supposed to do the work. We then tell them about it and …
Problem Finders
There are three ways to be of value to another person or organization. If they know the problem and know the solution to that problem, we can …
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Despite commitments and good intentions, people regularly fail to do what they had said they would do. It is tempting to explain that their lack of moral …