I recently heard a talk on the Japanese art of Kintsugi. If you aren’t familiar with Kintsugi, it is taking a piece of broken pottery and mending it back together with a lacquer. The lacquer is mixed with flakes of gold, silver or platinum as to accentuate the areas the pottery has been damaged. This […]
Darren Hardy said, “To change your reflection (what you do that you want your people to do), change your projection (the example you set).” You are being watched. Never forget that. Like it or not, your behavior and words influence the whole organization. Employees are paying attention to your actions, copying your ethics, and responding […]
Just this morning, I received a message from a parent of a teenager that said, “I’m not necessarily a leader, but I wanted you to know that your podcast ‘Curiosity killed the excuses’ really helped me with how I view my teenager.” I loved hearing the story of how this person was moved and challenged […]
To succeed in any industry, you must keep moving. It’s how good leaders become great leaders. “The key to success is holding in your conscious mind what you want to achieve and then striving in everything you do to make the image a reality.” –Norman Vincent Peale The golf pro I recently took lessons from […]
For every minute of planning you do, you save ten minutes of time. The payoff is great. The time to do it? That’s the challenge. By planning, you get ahead of major initiatives coming up in the future, avoiding “hair on fire” reactivity that results in high-stress and low-quality implementation. Yet the fires to put […]
As leaders, you evaluate the present and look toward the future. You consistently work to make tomorrow better than today. You might also feel like you only have time for the present and today’s “fires” that you are responsible for “putting out.” You became a leader because you could envision the future. Perhaps you have […]
“Mojo” is that positive spirit toward what you are doing, and it’s a crucial mindset for leadership. “It starts on the inside,” shares Marshall Goldsmith, “and radiates to the outside.” While you might have some pre-disposition toward being a glass-half-empty person versus a glass-half-full person, we can all get a little better at leaning into […]
We live in a world where we have instant access to EVERYTHING. We can order something from our phone, and pick it up or have it delivered exactly when we want it, without getting up off our ergonomic office chair. We have more choices than our previous generation had access to, but yet, we are […]
If you are reading this blog, there’s a good chance you are an entrepreneur or an intrapreneur (within a company). With that often comes a desire for adventure. You probably embrace change, take more risks than the average person, and leap into action without having full certainty on the destination. And that’s a strength because […]
Leading a successful team or business must have both sides of the same coin: a compelling vision of a desired future and a day-to-day excellence in execution of that vision. One eye on the future and one eye on the present. This blog is about setting and maintaining those high standards for the team to […]
