As a leadership coach, one topic I spend a lot of time talking to clients about is getting results. More specifically, we talk about anxiety about getting results. When we dive into that a little deeper, what we discover is that the anxiety is about a fear that what we really want to happen … … Continue reading Want Results? Focus on Your Intentions, Not Outcomes
Keeping Things Simple: 4 Thoughts For Navigating The Every Day Path
There is an interesting short series on Netflix called “Cooked”. It is a four episode look at the history of human cooking, and in particular the impact of the hectic pace of our society on our diets, because fewer people are making food for themselves. I’m a bit of a foodie, and there are not many days in … Continue reading Keeping Things Simple: 4 Thoughts For Navigating The Every Day Path
Five Ways To Change Your World (and hopefully the world overall)
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank One of my quirks is that I like to start each morning with a cup of coffee and the puzzle page from the local newspaper. The quote above was the answer to the “Decodaquote” puzzle … Continue reading Five Ways To Change Your World (and hopefully the world overall)
“Loose and Long” (And Other Lessons From The Golf Course)
Yesterday I was at my golf course, walking among the drifting leaves as autumn continued to create at once both beautiful images and challenging golf conditions. It was my last weekend playing before the course closes so I was thinking back over my year of golf and all of its ups and downs. Golf is … Continue reading “Loose and Long” (And Other Lessons From The Golf Course)
The Art Of Storytelling: Making Lore Work For Your Organization
My wife and I are vacationing on Prince Edward Island in Eastern Canada, visiting with some great friends. For those of you that don’t know PEI, it is the smallest of Canadian provinces with a population somewhere around 140,000 for the entire province. As with many smaller places or even smaller companies, there is a … Continue reading The Art Of Storytelling: Making Lore Work For Your Organization
Six Thoughts on How to Manage New Situations
After more than 15 years in the same office space, our company moved on June 1 into a completely different building. It was a big process, and a bigger change than most of us anticipated. One person that I chatted with regarding this change actually said he felt dizzy for the first few days just … Continue reading Six Thoughts on How to Manage New Situations
Leading Essentially 