April 6, 2020April 7, 2020Do, Leading How to Prevent Burnout when Working From Home Working more hours yet have less time to get our work done. On calls, Zoom, or Teams all day. Rear end feels […]
July 6, 2017We The Problem Isn’t Between You and Me… …or you and them or us and them. No. The problem is always over there, on the table in front of us. And […]
February 22, 2017We Where the Really Good Solutions Are Hiding Most of the conflicts we see in the news and in our businesses are silly and wasteful. Stuck in our positions, we […]
January 12, 2017Leading, We Helpful or Confusing? Other people’s perspectives can either open new possibilities or merely add confusion. Mostly, we get to choose which it will be. And […]
November 15, 2016We At Each Others’ Throats For the most part, we can all agree about the symptoms of a problem (say, the volume of traffic at rush hour or […]
April 13, 2016We The Fundamental Challenge for Teams The fundamental challenge for any team of two or more people is trust. When there is lack of trust, issues about who […]
November 14, 2014Sales and Influence Six Tough Questions for Better Sales and Collaboration We can answer the following questions both when we sell something to our clients and when we seek better collaboration with others inside […]
October 9, 2014We The Shortest Distance We are here, we need to be there, and we need to take these steps to get there. It’s the straight line, […]
September 15, 2014Do, Grows, Leading, Strategy, We, What When Meetings Are Painful Most meetings serve two distinct functions: to track and to choose. These functions don’t mix well. In a tracking meeting, we check […]
May 20, 2014Grows, We Being Right Is Awful And What Works Better Being right is awful. How can it be that we are so sure we are right and yet everyone argues with, fights, […]