25 Days of Holiday Gifts for The Boss: Day #19 – How to Let Others Win

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...

25 Days of Holiday Gifts for The Boss: Day #18 – How to Work Towards a Shared Agreement

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...

25 Days of Holiday Gifts for The Boss: Day #14 – What Others Want

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...