Our house was broken into last week. They came in through an open window and stole all our small electronics, some of my jewelry and – perhaps most offensive – took bites out of the Top Pot Donuts my brother in law had brought us! And in the course of finding their chosen loot, they [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Personal Effectiveness'
What a 7-year Old Can Teach You About Nurturing
Nice Guys Who Finish First
(Quick note: this entire conversation refers to women as well as men. Sad truth is, however, that when we’re talking about executives, most of them are still men.) I coach a lot of “nice guys” and some who wonder why people don’t realize how nice they are “on the inside.” And here’s the sad part: [...]
The Learning Curve: More Like a Standing Wave
We progress. We regress. We gress again. Growing and getting better – no matter the subject – just don’t seem to happen in a forward-moving way. As a Don Henley song says, “All the things I thought I’d figured out, I’m learning again…” We feel like we’ve mastered something, and then we find that it’s [...]
Your Presence is Requested
You usually go to a spinning class on Tuesday nights, but tonight you have a headache. You’re really swamped, so attending the cross-functional team meeting today is really a stretch. You have a 1:1 scheduled with a member of your team, but that’s the only time today your client can meet. You’re late to a [...]
Muhammad Ali: Career-Maker
My husband Kurt and I went to the world premiere of a documentary called Facing Ali , part of the Seattle International Film Festival, last Friday night. The film was remarkable on many levels. If you have a chance to see it (soon in New York and LA, perhaps to be rolled out in other cities [...]
Time Will Prove You Wrong
From the introduction to Peter Senge’s new book, The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World: “One thing we have learned from working on organizational and systemic change is that the leaders are hard to identify in advance. Sometimes they are CEOs or presidents, but often they do [...]
Switch off the struggle
The Pareto Principle states that 80% of the results come from 20% of the effort – and there are dozens of different ways to play with the 80/20 rule: 80% of your profit comes from 20% of your clients; 20% of your employees generate 80% of your injuries or errors; 20% of the time you [...]