Tag: leadership

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would end up taking a day off every week, but I kept seeing the benefits accrue. I thought better. I got more focused. I became calmer. My life became happier.

FRUSTRATION! The team and I had just invested three hours wrestling with significant issues. We defined the criteria that would make for a good decision…we had...

Not everyone is a manager, but it takes a really special person who's committed to being a manager to be effective as a manager, so there's a difference there.

People work for a manager because they have to. After all, they have the job title, the paycheck, and the power that goes with...

What a leader wants to do is not just to have a personal set of behaviors, but to turn those behaviors into a brand, that helps other people get better.

I call it the “New car effect.” The day we buy a car, you can't stop seeing it everywhere.

My brother-in-law recently got a job in retail sales of satellite TV.  Here’s a psychological trick he was taught – ask the nice young...

Sometimes, cheaters get caught. We have seen sports stars be suspended for taking performance-enhancing drugs. Religious leaders lose their ministries over an affair. Politicians face...

I'm really grateful the way it turned out because going through that, and having so many people tell me that I would fail, was the biggest confidence boost I could get at age 17 and it was exactly what I needed.