Tough Assignment
You can recover from disaster. The worst situations can be salvaged. You can transform what looks dark, dreary, hopeless, or chaotic. You can be that …
win-win
Road to Success
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the best roads to success in business are named Battle, Struggle, and Competition. You are better off, of course, …
Or Don’t Play
Win-win is one of the four major ingredients of success for whatever success you want. “Win-win” is shorthand for “win-win-or-don’t-play.” Or, “Let’s agree to find …
You Simply Can’t Know
We often are baffled by other people’s behavior. And we rush to ascribe the causes. Yet in trying to figure out why she did this …
How to Clear Lingering Tasks
We waste time and energy on lingering tasks. They distract and drain us until we finally deal with them. If we have a task that …
Delegation Fail
Traditional delegation, whether by telling, pleading, bribing, or manipulating, does not work for very long. That’s because our job is not to get people to …
Gagillions
The effort it takes to keep a trade secret or preserve a patent may not be worth it. Companies like Apple and Samsung chase each …
Hard Work Has Nothing to Do With It
Hard work is not one of the ingredients of success. Showing up and doing the next best action again and again? Sure. Tuning your inner …
Better Interviews
The usual way to think of a job interview is as some sort of a test. The interviewee, wanting to be judged worthy, studies and …
The Pitch
A pitch is a presentation to get people to consider our offer. (We all have something to offer.) Whether presenting to the board, asking for …