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The more senior your position, the more meetings you attend. When it comes to business meetings, most executives might apply the old adage about the opposite gender: Can’t live with ’em. Can’t live without ’em. Studies show that 49% of managers feel that they are wasting at least 3 hours per week in meetings.
Do you ever get the feeling that you’re trying to herd cats? It can be a feeling of hopeless frustration.
If you were working in an ocean, is your typical day more like: Sinking? Treading Water? Or, Swimming?
Most of us settle for treading water. Is there a better way? Here is a simple tactic that is a Life Saver for some.
A client shared a story of an elderly woman who was about to agree to a major home improvement purchase. Before she signed on the dotted line, she added one last request.
In 1992, the Chicago Bears, fired Mike Ditka, their iconic head football coach. “Da Coach’s fanatic fans were distraught. As for Mike Ditka, he just lost his dream job. Yet in the face of his life altering event, Coach Ditka shared four words of wisdom we should all learn to embrace in times of adversity.
Do you find that Goal Setting is a needless, futile, frustrating exercise? Before you throw the baby out with the bathwater, look in the mirror and ask is it “the tactic” or “the leadership”?
A valuable business opportunity is a terrible thing to waste. Yet it happens repeatedly when we aren’t ready for their arrival. How do you prevent valuable opportunities from falling through the cracks?
In case you missed it, 83-year-old Evelyn Paswall of Forest Hills, Queens NY is suing Apple for $1 million, saying the company was negligent for not elderly-proofing the store’s see-through facade. Is this McDonalds Coffee Deja Vu?
That quote is the first sentence of the opening paragraph of the business best seller, Good To Great by Jim Collins. Mr. Collins goes on to explain how complacency with being good is an obstacle to pursuing greatness. The noble pursuit of greatness concept has inspired leaders, followers and book sales. Does that mean we should pursue greatness in every thing we do?
Mere experience with using a voice, a pen or a keyboard, doesn’t make you a good communicator. Here are 7 Secrets to Effective Communication to help you reduce the amount of dysfunctional communication in both professionally and personally.
We are seeing more application of Inside-Out communication from both small business and national TV ads. Here are my favorite examples. If you want to learn to “start with why”, here’s how.
I was genuinely honored to receive an invite to speak on the subject of Leadership at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of business. Thanks to Bill Hope for being an accommodating host. And to all the attending MBA students who provided both compliments and constructive feedback.
Organizations typically hire for skills and knowledge, then fire and promote on the basis of attitudes and habits. Upon terminating people, they start the process over again. Are skills and knowledge needed for job success? Of course! But how many times have we seen skillful, knowledgeable people fail to fit with their new job or organization?
If I asked you to rate your own open-mindedness on a 1 to 10 scale, what number would you give yourself?
Planning to do something important? Does it also happen to be something you keep putting off? The best time to start is RIGHT NOW!
Ten years ago, who would have imaged successful businesses with unlisted phone numbers?
The Curse of Knowledge is a condition that comes from knowing so much about your topic that you struggle to connect with your audience. It’s easy to become cursed. When you’re a subject matter expert, you naturally assume others have a similar frame of reference. But, how could they?
The internet has forever changed marketing. However the more things change the more some old, yet golden rules apply. Here’s some social marketing insight from the 1947 film classic Miracle on 34th Street.
We are all faced with what we can now (sadly) call Joe Paterno moments. How will you respond when your reputation is subtly at stake?
The essence of formal leadership is “getting results through others”. So, effective delegation skills are essential. Like all intangibles, delegation skills are never fully mastered. Let’s look at what it takes to become a better delegator.
Do you ever find yourself nodding to affirm your understanding of an acronym when you really don’t have a clue? Let’s look at what’s really happening here and what can do instead.
Whenever you point your finger, there are always three others pointing in the opposite direction. Learn the 8 Eye Opening Attributes help you discover you’re playing: The Blame Game.
Triple Bottom Line Leadership is a term for strategic sustainability initiatives that seek to align people, profits and the planet. While I’m an inherent optimist, I don’t envision the concept reaching critical mass in the near term future. Here’s why…
We can agree that your personal integrity is an essential requirement for being an effective leader. Let’s learn from legendary leader Vince Lombardi and his value for punctuality.
Business witness relationships can be the invaluable assets. What is a business witness? Why do you need them? What are the three qualities that every business witness must have? Why should you have a witness retention program?
Changing long standing habits can be challenging, at best, Let me share a “way” for you make it possible by discovering your “why”.
By going from Golf’s outhouse to the penthouse, pro golfer Rory McIlroy magnified the magic of maintaining mental hygiene.
Have you ever looked at your work team and wondered: “Why can’t we all just get along?” Perhaps a better question is: Why should we just get along? By “just” getting along, could we be compromising our objectives for the sake of artificial harmony?
Can you help me connect with organizers of fund raising events with silent auctions in Chicagoland?
Contrasting a compelling fable of a manager who couldn’t leave well enough alone with one of corporate America’s biggest success stories.
At the beginning of the pro basketball season, Chicago’s Derrick Rose was asked about his goals. He answered the question with a question. “Why can’t I be the MVP?” While there were an abundance of good reasons, Rose refused to believe any of them. The rest is history. In writing your own history. I ask: Why can’t you?
The film, Apollo 13 gave us the line “Failure is not an option” I briefly consider the role of failure in innovation, problem solving and decision making. In revealing that “Failure Phobia” is counterproductive, I share three new ways to fail responsibility.
Because so many have asked about the origin of my caricature, I created my first web cam video to briefly tell the story in 99 seconds.
There is a management system that I’ve observed in organizations ranging from two partner companies to the Fortune 100. But it lacked a name until now. I hereby call it “Management By Telepathy”. This is not one of those new buzzword breakthrough management systems that I would aspire develop a consulting practice around. Instead it’s a metaphoric mirror for managers who wonder why their seemly talented staff fails to meet expectations.
Here in the state of Illinois, we’ve just done away with the death penalty. So we’re trying to let go of the eye-for-an-eye punitive system and the often insatiable desire to GET EVEN. Might we find a higher ground and more productive and mature mindset in the process? Considering both the tangible and intangible resources expended with vindictive thinking, what is the real cost of wanting to get even?
Have you become a “Social Media Moth”, attracted by the bright lights and not really knowing why? Social Media & “The Moth Effect” examines how to avoid getting zapped by applying old school rules to this evolving new media.
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