The Way of the Natural Leader
Not scolding, not withholding, not incenting, not hoping. Neither carrotting nor sticking. And certainly not I’ll-believe-it-when-I-see-it-ing. No. The best way to improve other people’s performance …
Never Mind the Naysayers
Never mind what the naysayers say. They don’t matter compared with all the people who need your good work. Act, go, jump in. In …
Tolerating Incompetence
Because confronting them is uncomfortable, we will often tolerate people that we judge as incompetent. But this helps no one. Everyone feels bad and distracted. …
Focusing on What’s Missing to Get What You Want?
We can choose to focus on lack or on appreciation. Focusing on the lack of anything pretty much always prolongs whatever is lacking. Focusing on …
Give and Get
The sages tell us that the best way to get what we want is to give it to others first. Sounds like an odd approach. …
Leadership Defined Quite Well Indeed
Leadership is the act of ensuring we have a clear, current, commonly understood, and compelling goal. It is also the act of ensuring we have …
The Oddest Career and Marketing Secret
The secret is that the people we can help the most and best are the ones who struggle with the same things we struggle with. …
How To Stop Dwelling and Lead
Every leader occasionally or often experiences fear, uncertainty, doubt, worry, anger, regret, or guilt. We can’t really be good leaders unless we know these feelings. …
Never Underestimate
Never underestimate your ability to dramatically improve even the toughest, darkest, most challenging situations by modeling resilience, calm, and unconditional faith in others. Raise your …
Unconditional
Most of us live our lives trying to make the world behave as we think it should. We think, “That person or this situation changing …