Thoughts on people, teams, organizations, communities, effectiveness and success
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 voice at the other end of the voicemail sounded sincere and the message they left earlier about the possible job sounds great. But is too good to be true just that: too good to be true?
And can you trust the recruiter who left the message?
The short answer is “maybe”. And here’s more.
I spend my work life coaching people and teams to up their performance game, and one of ways to enhance performance is to improve the ability anticipate what’s coming down the pike.… Read the rest
Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg offers some gems of advice on her work/life philosophy in the September 23, 2009 issue of Fortune to people in general and women in specific.
Sandberg writes “But after watching talented woman after talented woman pass up opportunities, I realized that too many women make the mistake of leaving before they leave. Here is what is happens: An ambitious, successful woman starts considering having children.… Read the rest
In the old days, which is anything more than about seven years ago, I would be playing my personal version of “Masters of the Universe” today. The plot would be familiar: take several important meetings, make several important phone calls and send several important e-mails. If it were an unusually important day, I might even be traveling out of town for particularly important meetings.… 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