June 5, 2017Grows, Success I Double-Super-Secret Promise You It won’t work. It’s hard. I’m not good at that. They won’t do it. You gotta be lucky. The situation I’m looking […]
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. […]
February 24, 2017Do, Grows We Needn’t Assuming we know the outcomes we want to see, there are two ways we can approach any given situation. We can worry […]
December 9, 2015Leading, Sales and Influence, Success Expect Big Picture End Results Yes, expect more. But what we expect matters. If we expect specifics–especially what a specific person or situation could or should give […]
December 8, 2015Grows, Success Expect More We all always get the level of success we expect. Want more? Expect more. In your corner, Mike PS: Rien de […]
September 17, 2015Grows Inevitable Fruit One way to succeed is to act as if we have already achieved the essence of whatever it is we wanted. For example, we […]
July 27, 2015Leading, We How To Expect Them To Do Well In yesterday’s note, we saw how our beliefs about people’s capabilities affect their performance. Regardless of how much we may want them to […]
July 27, 2015Leading, We Expect Them to Do Well We get what we expect. Not what we hope, not what we think should be. This is true in general and it […]
July 13, 2015Grows What Do You Expect? We can live life and lead others as if we are waiting for the other shoe to drop. Anticipating that something bad […]
June 15, 2015Grows Expect It to Go Well If we expect that meeting or this interaction to go poorly, it will. If we are even concerned a bit, our results […]