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Leadership is a choice between two roads
Decades ago the poet Robert Frost wrote a wonderful poem, The Road Not Taken. It begins by describing a choice a traveler must make when faced with a fork in the road.
A Simple Exercise to Measure Your Strengths and Weaknesses
Do you want a real assessment of your performance?
Here is a simple exercise to get a glimpse of your current leadership strengths, weaknesses, and impact of your company culture. It takes less than 5 minutes.
The ONE Thing Webinar Series - Part 4 - 3 Commitments and 4 thieves
The fact is you are your biggest obstacle. Gary Keller believes there are 6 lies and 4 thieves holding you back from pursuing 3 commitments that lead to a meaningful life without regrets.
Dealing With Shame
What decisions have you made recently based on your shame?
Probably more than you realize.
The ONE Thing Webinar Series - Part 3
How well are you focused today? Are you looking forward to your day with joy?
The ONE Thing Webinar Series - Part 2
This morning our webinar covered LIES #3-6 from the book, The ONE Thing.
If you truly want a better 2018, listen to this webinar and scan the PPT deck to learn what others are saying is life-changing wisdom.
Save $50,000 by avoiding a bad hire
Where's the $50,000?
The Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) has said to replace one bad hire can cost up to 5X the annual salary of executives and top contributors.
The ONE Thing Webinar Series - Part 1
Part 1 in our webinar series on The ONE Thing by Gary Keller.
Win the battle against your Army of Orcs
Every day we have too many options. However, the more you focus your time, the clearer you see the masses against you.
Let me teach you about The ONE Thing
What's the opposite of stress?
I am leading four complimentary webinars to answer this question at 6:00 a.m. PST Mondays, February 5, 12, 26, and March 5.
Avoid Using Broken Shovels
President Abraham Lincoln once commented, "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
The 4th and Final Secret is Sanctuary
Sanctuary is a combination of mental retreat, strategic planning, and self-accountability so you stay on track to achieve your best, not just something good... or "okay."
A smile at Christmas
The holidays are a wonderful time to celebrate with family and friends.
Dale Carnegie decades ago wrote about the value of a smile at Christmas.
The value of Employee Strategic Plans
Job descriptions are dead. They are static documents that died on completion. Into the file folder they go... never to be seen again.
Instead, why not create a success plan for every team member?
How to put expectations in writing
Last week I explained how to better hit your TARGETs in 2018. Today is the 2nd of my 4 secrets to make next year, your best year.
A major problem in the workplace is assumptions are made between coworkers, and between bosses and their direct reports.
What's the ONE thing for great leadership?
Deloitte says high leadership maturity leads to 37% higher revenue.
QUESTION: How effective are your leaders?
What's the ONE Thing that develops your young or less effective leaders to "high leadership maturity?"
Set 2018 TARGETS now
2018 is one month away. In the next 4 weeks you can learn my 4 secrets to make next year, your best year.
Let me start with goals, which I call TARGETs.
How the best stay focused
If you are flying one degree off-course you miss your target by 92 feet for every mile flown. For every 60 miles of flying you are one mile off your target.
That is just one degree off...
How do you stay on track to achieve your most important TARGETs, objectives, goals?
Hit your stride and build into 2018
Have you ever considered that you are in a race? The longer you wait to enter the race, the farther others are ahead of you.
No comprende? Let's try it again: Professionally, you are in a race, whether you like it or not. The truth is, others are ahead of you.
Simple, Sticky Deadlines
What percentage of the time do you hit your deadlines?
How about your coworkers, or direct reports?
A survey once concluded 75% of the reason I.T. projects fail is missed deadlines. How about your work?