One of the single most important abilities to have in today’s shifting business world – one of the Brass Tacks, if you will – is adaptability. We need to be our own Swiss Army knives more than ever, cultivating a diverse set of concrete and soft skills that we Read more »
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Playing the Zero-Sum Game
I haven’t been around here much lately. I’m sorry about that. But I’ve been living one of the eternal truths of life: that time is a zero-sum game. I’m a systems thinker, which means I tend to think about how all the pieces and parts of things fit, and work, Read more »
Standards and Practices
“Well, that’s not how I would do it.” How I hate that phrase. Where does it come from? Ego? Lack of trust? Or something else? Why do we get not only in our own way, but in the way of others we want to help, or of those trying to help Read more »
Four Secrets of the Super Productive
I actually don’t know if I’d be considered super-productive. But I do get asked a bit how I “manage to do it all”. I certainly don’t do it all, and I have my days where I’m woefully behind or buried or overwhelmed. What I DO do, however, is get the Read more »
3-Stage Goals
How many times have you set a goal…and just missed it? For a lot of us, “just missing it” is tantamount to failure. For recovering perfectionists like myself, it’s all too easy to see success in terms of black and white, and the goals that get us there as pass/fail Read more »
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