Thoughts on people, teams, organizations, communities, effectiveness and success
While lots of us are smart – or at least think we are – almost all of us fall prey to the same common mistake of confusing effectiveness and effort. While effort is really important, the fact of the matter is that trying harder with the wrong approach won’t do much to make you successful.
Why is this important?
There are three behaviors as an executive and leadership team coach that I look for: is the situation diagnosed or understood correctly, are the right (e.g.… Read the rest
The are resources to help you manage your day, your week, and even your life are endless. Some are there for you to buy , and some are there for you to engage . Some of the resources are a combination of both , and appear overwhelming enough to make the eyes of the most motivated glaze over.
None will work unless you have the discipline to make them work.… Read the rest
The reader responded simply to the post “How to be Discovered .” “I just want,” she wrote, “to make myself visible.”
There are a few general things to consider and at least four things she might do based on what’s going on.
Here are the considerations that would run through my mind were I coaching her:
There are random events, and there are events that are chock full of patterns: the trick is knowing one set of events from the other, and in figuring out what, if anything, any patterns mean.
Something as simple as a run chart stuck up on your bulletin board wall helps you plot experience, whether it be the number of times your seven year old wakes-up at nights (less common lately – thank goodness) or the number of times things a client calls with one “last” change.… Read the rest
Just as in sports, some people in business seem to have the knack – and luck – of being in the right place at the right time. But how do they do it, and what can you learn from them that can work for you?
Here are six things you can do to raise your discovery profile:
1. Do great work.… Read the rest
Burning Man , that once a year event around the US Labor Day holiday where 50,000 mostly strangers set up an instant community in the Black Rock Desert area of northeastern Nevada evokes a couple, at least, of reactions.
For people from the North American Pacific West, it’s another mostly ho-hum event in which people learn, laugh, love, work, and have fun.… Read the rest