It’s Not Easy to Count What Matters
Keep this quote top of mind as you evaluate talent and set benchmarks for your individual and organizational success. Don’t make the mistake of defaulting to the easily measurable variables.
Should Pleading Guilty Excuse the Violation?
For most of our life, we’ve heard, “Don’t be a snitch”. In most of the movies we’ve seen, the “snitchers’ don’t fare so well when their comrades discover their double-dealing. D oes this same approach work in organizations? What do they do at West Point? This is part of our…
Why a Code of Conduct Strengthens Your Organization
Have you established a written Code of Conduct in your organization? O ur prescriptions for acceptable behavior are too vague. Get started now to spell it out more clearly to avoid that potentially colossal screwup. Have you heard this phrase before? “Conduct unbecoming” You may have heard this phrase from…
Kick the Certified Jerks to the Curb
If you want to poison the well where you work, allow a Certified Jerk to roam free. Mollycoddling is a pernicious and infectious organism you need to expel from your organization. Smart people can often be prima donnas, but the brilliance of some people is often more blinding than enlightening. Fortune…
You’ve Got to Dream While You Eat.
There's nothing more important ... or more challenging ... than the need to balance short-term results with long-range plans. H ow is your organization focused? Are you encouraging long-range thinking or only what happens this week? Do you have the Attention Span of a Mosquito? How often are you distracted…
Not enough resources … or Not Resourceful?
Resourcefulness has nothing to do with access to resources. W e have more resources than ever before. That’s not what makes us resourceful. Early this morning, I headed to a favorite place just down the street to bring home a couple of lattes for my wife and me. I think…
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It isn’t Technology Creating all the Distractions. It’s us.
We’d like to think that its technology that has become our enemy and is the cause of the distractions and our struggles to get things done.
What’s Keeping You from Making the Tough Decisions?
One of the most pervasive challenges that arises in my coaching sessions with CEOs and other business executives is the struggle to make the tough decisions. I t's a deadly disease that cripples personal productivity. It’s usually a decision that’s already been resolved — silently, often deep in the psyche…
What Would You Do on Captain Flint’s Ship?
Your Decision-Making Style will determine a lot about the success of your decisions. Are you able to make the tough calls when you need to?In an episode of Black Sails, a compelling saga about the Golden Age of Piracy in the early 1700s (S3/E3), the feared Captain Flint was piloting a…