To be a true learner, you start from a posture of humility. You start knowing you don’t know everything. You start knowing there is much you still must learn. You start knowing you need something you don’t have. You start knowing you have a lot of room to grow, and a lot to know. The … More The Humility of Learning
How do you make decisions? I’m not talking about whether you should eat a Mounds or a Snickers Bar. I’m talking about something of substance. What car to buy, what home to live in, where to go to college, or what to do about your career are all decisions of substance. A lot of us … More Emotional Decision Making
I don’t know about you but I have difficulty with perfect people. Maybe it’s because I’m not perfect. Maybe it’s because I’m so far from perfect it’s ridiculous. Maybe it’s because I’ve failed miserably, in view for all to see on multiple occasions. I’ve known great success and but also incredible failure. My difficulty with … More Please Fail a little
Everyday, we get a chance to bring the best of ourselves to our work. We can contribute. We can access and use the gifts and strengths which lie within each of us. We can make our organizations better. We can make our team better, and because of us bring out the best in our colleagues … More Celebrate Labor
Yesterday my wife and I were driving from a retail store in North Vegas back to our condo in Henderson. I’m still using GPS on my phone a lot because we don’t know our way around. I do have an idea of where the freeways are in relationship to our area. Anyway, I programed in … More Having GPS Failure?
I don’t know how many of you are puzzle players, but there is one fascinating thing we can understand about solving a puzzle. The pieces are all different shapes, sizes, and colors—and need to be. The toughest part of the puzzle is when the pieces appear to be the same, and we may spend endless … More The Puzzle Pieces Need to be Different
Leaders must be strong. Their leadership must be sure, steady, certain, determined, and fierce. Their confidence needs to exceed the confidence of anyone else in the organization. We want to follow the strong, not the weak. We want our leaders to forge ahead, climb mountains, cross dry deserts, conquer opposition, break through barriers, and be … More Kind Strength
I don’t know about you, but I tend to try too hard. I get something in my mind that I think should happen and I begin to push and push. I exert all my emotional energy on a goal and try to arrange everything to meet that goal. And I become quickly dissatisfied if progress … More Trying too hard
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