It seems clear to us that the next area of innovation is a return to one of the oldest of human endeavors—influencing valuable people to join you in pursuit of a common goal. Yes, there are …
Comfort Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be
Most likely your natural tendency is to sidestep uncomfortable emotions, painful physical sensations, cognitive challenges and/or social exertion. But those discomforts are often signals that you’re …
Continue Reading about Comfort Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be →
Surprising Problems with Praise
Despite the common advice of many business coaches, praise can demotivate your team and make them skeptical. Praise, like sweeteners, needs to come in measured amounts and not taste …
How the Best Leaders Listen and Respond
I want to share two skills that are simple but take practice. We teach these to our clients to help them accomplish more and have fewer stressful debates with their team, clients—and even family …
Continue Reading about How the Best Leaders Listen and Respond →
Is Your Life Working Well?
We think about Return on Investment (ROI) only in the context of money and profit, but I want to encourage you to consider investing time to assure your future will generate the happiness you want. …
Encouraging Positive Behavior
People need people. This was brought to my attention again when Jay was reading Deep Survival a book about the attitudes and behaviors that survivors of accidents and natural disasters exhibit. Many …