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How to Reach Metaphorical Mountain Tops at Work
Today’s workers are being asked to do more with less, to reach higher goals with fewer resources and in less time. You understand the need, you want to say “yes” and mean it, but you say “yes” with uncertainty and doubt. What’s going on? How come you can’t authentically say yes to climb the mountains…
Read MoreThe Art of a Successful Partnership: Staying Engaged After Saying “I do!”
Ahh, February, the Love month, host of Valentine’s Day. The day millions of us express our love with flowers, chocolates and those sugar hearts with goofy sayings. The day thousands will pop the question and become engaged. If you’ve been engaged or just plain head-over-heels in love, I bet you can remember how great you…
Read MoreGot a Goal? Get Focused!
Yogi Berra grins: If you don’t set goals, you can’t regret not reaching them. Novelist Rosalyn McMillan advises: When you want something in life, you have to focus. Both good points. But what happens when something blocks our progress? Do we focus on the goal and ignore the obstacle? Or, do we focus on removing…
Read MoreMid-Air Diasaster Avoided: Values Win Over Litigation
Do you know how your values shape your performance? In this story my client gave me permission to share, you’ll hear how his values and his commitment to honor his word guided him. Here’s his story… On an international flight from China, the captain’s voice woke us: “Will the doctors on board please press their…
Read MoreWant to make better decisions? Learn to balance.
Being successful requires making the right decisions at the right time. By “right”, I mean those decisions that effectively move us toward our goals. If you’re like many of us faced with making a critical business decision —who to hire or fire, what product or service to launch or dump, what deal to sign or…
Read MoreBoomers & GenYers Share the Same Bed … of Values
Recently, I was of the opinion that what Millennials (born 1976-87) value is different from what Boomers (born 1946-64) cherish. More recently, I received another intelligence report from HBR (http://harvardbusiness.org, July-Aug 09), entitled “How Gen Y & Boomers Will Reshape Your Agenda”, with the tag line: Your oldest and youngest talent cohorts demand many of…
Read MoreBoomers & GenYers Share the Same Bed … of Values
Recently, I was of the opinion that what Millennials (born 1976-87) value is different from what Boomers (born 1946-64) cherish. More recently, I received another intelligence report from HBR (http://harvardbusiness.org, July-Aug 09), entitled “How Gen Y & Boomers Will Reshape Your Agenda”, with the tag line: Your oldest and youngest talent cohorts demand many of…
Read MoreAre you a Delegator or a Dropper-off-er?
del-e-gat, vb, to commit powers, functions to another as a agent to carry out powers and functions; to assign responsibility. Synonym: entrust. Dropping-off. We ask others to do stuff for us all the time – stuff we don’t want to do, don’t have the time to do, and couldn’t do even if we had the…
Read MoreDifferent conversations, different outcomes
Scenario: An employee who doesn’t report to you asks that you keep the following in confidence. His performance review is overdue by 4 months. He anticipates a pay raise which is needed due to his spouse’s working hours reduced due to forced furloughs. The employee also wants to know if he is doing OK or…
Read MoreAre you measuring the past or the future?
What you have your attention on gets attended to. Peter Drucker reminds us: “People think they measure what they get. In fact, they get what they measure.” What are your measures getting you? Are the numbers numbing your staff or inspiring innovation? Do the measures maintain a comfortable zone or create the possibility for the…
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