I had dinner with my brother and his family the other day. At the restaurant, his son the kindergartner, is coloring with crayons. He is trying like crazy to color inside the lines, his tongue is sticking out with maximum concentration. Bruce leans over to him and says “way to color within the lines!” I
When I interview management candidates , one of the questions I always ask is “Tell me how you are thinking about the first 90 days on the job.” While I know that the candidate rarely knows the details of the position and the organization, the answer to this question tells me a lot: Do
Fearlessness The following is an excerpt from a book written by Margaret Wheatley and published with her permission on a daily blog called the Daily Good. It is about fearlessness and is worth reading in entirety. But, this passage in particular caught my attention and is an inspired metaphor for life and work. Enjoy! What would it
One of the biggest productivity killers is when projects don’t get completed on time, when deadlines slip. How much value you place on your time, and the time of others, is directly proportional to how much you and your team will accomplish. When you miss deadlines, you are signaling that it is ok to delay.
My customer Jeff Desich, invited me to attend an amazing conference he hosted for his customers this weekend. One of the speakers said this: “Excellence can never appear while mediocrity is standing there.” Very true. I have been thinking about this topic a lot lately. I wrote about the book, The Four Agreements, that i
Making the Decision Right by Tania Fowler Adam Grant, a management professor at the Wharton School of Business in Pennsylvania says: “You’ll face plenty of win-win choices in your life. The quality of the decision you make will be determined not by picking the right one, but by the actions you take post-decision to make the
From The Artist’s Tao by Sean Starr XXI Limitations “Destroy your self made limitations. There is not a person alive who cannot find a dozen excuses to keep from doing what they fear. Until you accept that anything is attainable and possible your work will flounder and lack clarity. Never limit yourself.” Discover your
From the Bhagavad Gita, universally acknowledged as one of the world’s literary and spiritual masterpieces: “You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.” ”
Gary Teitelbaum is the owner of the Cigar Ship that I frequent, Aficionados. Over a nice cigar, we ineitably get to talking about leadership and what it takes to run a business. Gary told me about selecting a location for his cigar shop. One of the locations he was looking at didn’t have easily accessible
My brother Bruce recently read a great biography about Saint-Exupery (the author of The Little Prince). Among other things, he was also a flying legend from the days of the golden age of flying, and in the 1920’s flew air mail routes over the Sahara for Aeropostale at night in planes with open cockpits,
