Always Compete, Gaining an Edge, Get Better, Go Full Speed, Goal Setting, Growth, Motivation, Personal Mastery, Problem-Solving, Professional Development
This is Day #21 of a collaborative project with my strategic partner, Margi Bush of Wisdom Tree Coaching. If you haven’t read Day One through Day Twenty-One in this series, you may want to read those first. Today we will continue to explore our fifth theme, Empathy....
Always Compete, Gaining an Edge, Get Better, Go Full Speed, Goal Setting, Growth, Motivation, Personal Mastery, Problem-Solving, Professional Development
In his 1994 book The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, author and consultant Peter Senge speaks of the tribes of northern Natal in South Africa and their friendly greeting to each other: Sawu bona. It literally means “I see you.” If you’re a member of the tribe, you answer...
Always Compete, Gaining an Edge, Get Better, Go Full Speed, Goal Setting, Growth, Motivation, Personal Mastery, Problem-Solving, Professional Development
All of us have the capacity to get what we want and need even if those around us and above us have more power. For us to be able to get what we want for us and our team to be successful, we have to do an inventory of power and influence. Keep in mind, in the spirit...
Always Compete, Gaining an Edge, Get Better, Go Full Speed, Goal Setting, Growth, Motivation, Personal Mastery, Problem-Solving, Professional Development
Most people don’t like to lose. Everyone loves a winner. But can we have both? Sometimes. What do you accomplish when somebody else wins? Sometimes losing teaches us how to win better. Years ago, my son’s youth football team was seven games into the season and...
Be the Boss, Boss On, Boss Up, Communication, Gaining an Edge, Go Full Speed, Management Development, Motivation, Personal Mastery, Problem-Solving
Here are your options: Win/Lose Lose/Lose Win/Win Which one is best? Well we say Win/Win but for most of us we settle for Win/lose, so long as we still win. Is it possible to get a Win/Win? Yes, but it takes a lot of work. We’ve previously explored separating WANT...
Always Compete, Be the Boss, Boss On, Boss Up, Communication, Gaining an Edge, Get Better, Go Full Speed, Goal Setting, Management Development, Motivation, Networking, Personal Mastery, Problem-Solving, Professional Development
There was a movie, launched years ago, starring Mel Gibson, called What Women Want. He played a sexist executive that was given the gift of being able to hear what women were thinking. Of course, it ended up making him more empathetic and was a somewhat entertaining...
