February 7, 2022February 7, 2022Career, Grows, Leading, Success, Sweetspot, Well Stop Trying to Measure Up Most of us struggle to measure up. It can be subtle but not hard to see when we look. We want to […]
July 23, 2017Career, Sweetspot Is Work a Drain? If work is a drain, then we are not working in our SweetSpot. That is, we are not using our talents, not […]
March 6, 2017Career, Sweetspot Our Power and Purpose [W]e are torn this way and that. Social and business pressures push us, and we go along, but the spark within is […]
June 8, 2016Leading, Sweetspot Are You Tapping the Fear or the Spark? There is a fear within each of us. Tap it and you’ll get hurried, harried, and short-lived results. Further attempts to mine […]
May 20, 2016Career, Job search, Sweetspot The Best Way to Land a Job These Days Job boards, applications, resumes. Oh. My. Stories from the front lines tell us that the traditional way of finding a job is pretty […]
May 18, 2016Sweetspot Chasing Career Specters In every industry or profession there is a mythical, ideal character we feel compelled to emulate. If we want to get a […]
April 25, 2016Career, Sweetspot How Meaningful Is Your Career Right Now? Meaningful careers are those where we are doing: Something that we are good at, Something that motivates us, Something that satisfies our needs, […]
December 23, 2015August 29, 2019Career, Do, Good: Your Good Work, Grows, Leading, Strategy, Success, Sweetspot, What All Is Nominal People who fire rockets like to say, “Conditions are nominal,” when everything is good to go. Guess what? Conditions are nominal. All […]
September 24, 2015Sweetspot But What Should I Commit To? “Ah,” you say. “I would love to commit but I haven’t a clue what I should commit to.” It turns out that […]
June 17, 2015Strategy, Sweetspot, What Fear of Making the Wrong Choice Fear of making the wrong choice is one reason we may not commit to a career, market niche, or organizational strategy. “What […]