As leaders, we have to challenge ourselves and our teams. Living within our comfort zones, accepting the status quo, means we don’t grow. We won’t grow as individuals, as a team, and as a business. Our customers expect us to innovate, to build on our value propositions. Our employees expect the same from us. And
Do you get frustrated about not accomplishing all the things you want to achieve? Of course you do. Life has a way of throwing detours and roadblocks at us. Just when we get our head above water, another crisis appears. Just when we find we are making headway on that critical project, we have to
from The Artist’s Tao by Sean Starr: XXXI Diligence “There is no greater glory than to work hard for what you love most. Work hard at developing your artistic voice” Time is too short not to understand your true passions, the things that motivate you, excite you. Work hard at that. I read an
I had the pleasure of working with an executive, Andrew Jackson. Andrew gets it. Andrew held a management meeting with his management team. There were several objectives to the meeting: A 360 team review and leadership style assessment (that alone tells you what kind of manager he is!) as well as strategy and business
Meet some social entrepreneurs – heroes that inspire me every day: Vera Cordeiro, a social entrepreneur in Brazil, has built a holistic healthcare model based on improving the livelihood of single mothers and their sick children – leveraging an empathetic, self-empowering model that raises the mothers out of cycles of despair and poverty and which
One of the things I like to do with my clients is to give them a forum experience. I am a member of YPO, an organization of CEOs around the world. Within YPO , I am a member of a forum; forum is a group of 6-8 YPO CEOS that meet every month and share
A friend of mine sent me this poem by a Budhist monk. In its simplicity, it sends us a welcome message: If you can solve your problem Then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, Then what is the use of worrying? Taking the time to focus on the present helps
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. The book talks about 4 principles deriving from the ancient wisdom of the Toltecs who were known to be “people of knowledge” and dedicated themselves to maintaining traditional spiritual knowledge of their ancestry. The Four Agreements talk to several premises, including that fundamentally we no longer pay deliberate
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” – Dalai lama “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind” – Gandhi “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion ” – Dalai Lama “First they ignore you, then they laugh
Great leaders bring a lot to the table – Their experience, their skills, and their ability to motivate and rally their organizations to achieve results. Such high performance has much to do with creating an environment of transparency and trust; an environment wherein employees open up, express opinions and take risks because they see their
