When Doors Close
Here’s something that we know and sometimes forget: one door closing causes infinite other doors to open. The joy is in the choosing. “What now?” …
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Generate Results in Meetings
We might push, posture, protect, or prattle to get results in a meeting. Or we can let go, listen, learn, and lean in. Which aprroach …
Tough Love
Seeing unhelpful behavior from someone on the team, we tend to either avoid or press. If we tend to avoid, we don’t want the conflict. …
Chasing
Hyper, unexamined, superhuman, the need to keep up, and racing to it. Not the product of a strategic decision but an unexamined ramping up of …
Underestimate the Power?
Never underestimate the power of trust, care, empathy, vulnerability, openness, forgiveness, love to change even the worst situations. In your corner, Mike PS: Yes, …
Good Leadership, Wise Business
The sages tell us that there are only two reactions to anything: fear or love. Nothing else. So if we catch ourselves feeling bad or …
Fear and Love
At the base of everything we experience is fear and love. That’s it. That’s all. We are a bundled blend of these. We are heading …
The Secret Ingredient
Before we direct, correct, encourage, sell to, influence, plead with, or praise people, let’s take a moment to quietly love them. If we can’t love them, let’s …
Power and its Opposite
Let’s agree to be powerful leaders (with or without title). To do that, let’s first distinguish power from its opposite. Power is the stance of …
Two Sides of the Same Coin
The sages have always said that there are just two emotions: love and fear. It’s helpful to see that these are two sides of the …