How often you wake up excited to crush your day, but end up realizing that you fizzled out in just a few hours after starting your day? Sounds familiar? It happens all the time. Despite all the good intentions, most people end up wasting their entire day. I’ve also struggled this in the past and …
Change other people’s lives – and your own – by becoming a great coach. The era of the autocratic executive who leads from the top down is over. Most large organizations have reduced the number of levels or layers in their hierarchy. Competition to get and keep the best performers gives an edge to companies …
Today, I’m going to share a useful analogy of the mind known as the rider and the elephant along with a simple exercise to get yourself deeply motivated. Let’s get to it! Psychologists know that there are two systems in our brains; the rational system and the emotional system. In his book, The Happiness Hypothesis, …
What is thought leadership? In our busy, search-driven, and social media powered world, differentiating our brand’s point of view can be a daunting task. What do the words “thought leader” even mean when almost any question you can dream up is instantly answerable with one click? As business communicators, we tend to rely on the …
In a BBC article on the results of the world’s largest survey on rest, professor Felicity Callard, director of the international group that devised the study, said: “We really need to challenge the assumption that if you take more rest, you are lazier. The fact that people who are more rested seem to have better …
As anyone could realize, the two most important things that are required to achieve your goals are (1) Strategy; and (2) Execution. In a wonderful book that I read earlier named The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Sean Covey, and others, they explain while most leaders somehow get hold of the strategy portion, it is …
Opening your own business is one of the smartest things you can do in today’s economy. Millions of people are out of work, corporate job opportunities are on the decline, and people from across all socio-economic groups are fed up with working for others and want to begin building their own dreams. That’s why so …
American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart once said, “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” Your paper tigers …
How being socially responsible can keep a firm thriving for – no joke – 1,500 years. Six Sigma experts Holly A. Duckworth and Andrea Hoffmeier outline a continual-improvement program for long-term sustainability. Their model is Japan’s 1,500-year-old firm, Kongo Gumi, founded in 578 AD. They find that most current continual-improvement programs can address social responsibility …
A lot of us have heard or used the term “afraid of success”, but very few of us truly understand what it means. When we say someone is “afraid of success”, we don’t really mean it in the same way someone is afraid of spiders, or of flying on an airplane. Those fears are very …
