Why We Cannot Afford to Focus on Bad Things
Here’s another habit we all seem to have inherited: focusing on bad things and trying to prevent from happening. Like other inherited habits, this one costs us: we …
How to Stress Well
Stress is what we feel when we notice the gap between the way something is and the way we want it to be. Good stress is …
We Need Not Be (the) Experts
A high-tech sales and marketing executive joining a law firm. An English major starting a mobile apps company. A teacher running an international shipping company. …
Time to Set a Strategy
Stagnation. Lack of results. People spending time on intrigue, politics, silo building, or just rearranging the deck chairs. When we see signs like these, it’s time …
It Does Take Two to Tango
Because, as leaders, we enter many relationships, we often find ourselves bothered by and reacting to other people’s actions. Whenever and with whomever we repeatedly feel …
Are Your People Geniuses or Not?
We can see people as either geniuses or not. If they are not, they are like machines; they have a fixed performance capacity. And we believe …
Our Story of the Future
More often, when we tell the story of our future, is it of the future we want or of what we don’t want? Is our future …
The To-Do List is Dead…
Long live the to-do list! Even people who are good at making lists of their tasks get overwhelmed. Despite having up-to-date lists, they find it …
In A World…
In a world–heck, even in an organization or family–where things are tense, chaotic, stagnant, or dim, we can lose sight of things. Yet beyond, beneath, …
Strong, Perfect, Included, Right
As leaders (with or without title), it really feels like we are on the hot seat, doesn’t it? We feel we need to be strong, perfect, included, …