October 14, 2018Grows, Leading Paper Tiger Cognitive dissonance unconsciously drives us to twist things to match our beliefs about ourselves, each other, the situation, and the world. We […]
October 4, 2018Leading Others’ Behavior We spend way too much time and energy trying to get others to behave so that we feel better. Far better is […]
October 2, 2018Leading Don’t Look Back The sages tell us that all our power is in the present. Any time we spend regretting, blaming, or trying to figure […]
June 7, 2017Grows, Leading The Danger of Focusing on What’s Wrong Just look at everything we have to do. -Every leader Though there is so much to do, fix, and improve (and we […]
June 4, 2017Do, Grows, We, What Great Results Great results occur when we finally see that our real work is to focus on what we want, feel good about what […]
May 28, 2017Grows, Leading Leading When Beliefs Go Rogue Labels, judgments, yeah buts, and other beliefs about the way things are can help but often stop helping us. They go rogue. […]
May 25, 2017Grows, Strategy, Success Fall in Love with Your Vision So used to expecting things not to work out, we limit our vision of what think we or our businesses can achieve. […]
May 15, 2017Grows Who’s Listening? You know that narrator in your head? It’s the voice that seems to put all the thoughts into words. Pause, please, and consider. […]
May 8, 2017Grows We Get What We Expect Maybe this sounds silly, trite, or just plain wrong. Yet we see daily reminders of how reality generally matches what we expect. […]
April 30, 2017Grows, Leading, We Inspirational Fail Inspirational posters and Instagram posts typically fail us. That’s because wise words do not transmit wisdom, they only coax us toward wisdom […]