7 Everyday Gifts For Your Family
I am a horrible gift giver. I guess I have to admit that I don’t know what people really want and even if I did, I still don’t nail it. This time of the year makes me very nervous. However, there are some gifts that are needed all during the year and Mark Merrill has […]
Great Leaders Know They’re Not Perfect
Every day we are all asking ourselves the question How am I doing? The place you go for the answer will determine your success. Many of us set the bar too high and therefore live with a sense of ongoing failure. Ron Carlucci in the HBR shares some great insight: “It’s not unusual for […]
How To Have Difficult Conversations
This one took years to learn the hard way and I still routinely blow it to this day. It is not enough to be right, you also have to say the right thing, the right way and last but not least at the right time. If not the message is never heard by the way […]
7 Tips For Managing High Impact Teams
I consume everything I can on teamwork. There is so much confusion between the value of collaboration and the demise of direction and delegation. I think all of these have value and Harvey Deutschendorf has some great thoughts: “Most business leaders can agree that teamwork is important for getting anything done. But the agreement usually […]
The 5 “T” That Will Tell Your Story
I have often heard that no one call really preach your funeral, you have already done it. All they can do is to tell the stories from others perspective about what you valued during your life. I have never heard one person say they wish they had spent more time at work but rather valued […]