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Category Archives: Personal Development Advice
What’s Your Job?
When you start a business, you’re exposed to a seemingly endless stream of diverging themes and complicated processes. I attempt to reorganize them into simple systems.
That’s my job as an educator—to take ideas that have become complicated and noisy …
Undercover Boss is Bad for Business and The Secret Millionaire is Bad for Society
My friend, Terry Starbucker, a leadership expert, wrote a compelling post entitled, The Trouble With Undercover Boss (If Your’e a Boss), where he makes the case that the CBS show is bad for bosses because a great CEO would be …
Moving On From Ideas That Aren’t Working (AKA: Innovation)
Yesterday I wrote about being intimidated by your own ides. It sparked such an intense and meaningful conversation about innovation and change that I thought I’d continue the discussion today.
So, what is innovation? Innovation is a simple act. …
You Have the Power to Change (Yourself & The World)
We live in challenging times. Often, the world seems a dark and dangerous place, with little hope: We are at war; there is an environmental crisis looming on the horizon; too many people live in poverty; our health care system …
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Tagged change, crisis, environment, exercise, Google, help, Heroes, inspiration, intolerance, justice, millions, peace, poverty, power, racism, truth, war
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Shared Ambition (Do You Have It?)
To succeed, you need to be ambitious, to cultivate ongoing ambition.
To succeed, you also need people around you who support your ambition, who nurture your inner strength, and who cultivate and maintain curiosity as well.
Staff, partners, family, friends, …
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Tagged ambition, collaboration, curiosity, family, friends, future, Golden Rule, partners, Platinum Rule, staff, strength, Success
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Give Up, Give In, Get Going (Before it’s Too Late)
If I am your coach or advisor, you may resist some of the suggestions or options I offer you. If I encourage you to change your plan, change your tactics, or more importantly, change your thinking, you may rebel.
You …
Close Your Mouth (You’ll Get More Done)
Yesterday, while working with clients in one of my programs, I got on my soapbox about dealing with life on life’s terms. They were grumbling about a deadline being a week earlier than they expected. So, instead of 12 …
Making History: The American Dream
I believe you can change the future, regardless of our history, if you’re not a prisoner of the past.
In a way, it’s how people think about the classic American Dream—a person who comes from an unlikely background making it …
The Only Person that Likes Change is a Baby with a Wet Diaper
I once heard it said that the only person who likes change is a baby with a dirty diaper. Change is such an extraordinary, sometimes uncomfortable thing, isn’t it? So many of us crave it but fiercely resist it, fueling an ever-escalating …
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Tagged change, comfort, discomfort, mastery, Michael Port
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