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“Your beliefs become your thoughts.
Your thoughts become your words.
Your words become your actions.
Your actions become your habits.
Your habits become your values.
Your values become your destiny.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
Decision-making is about discernment. Tools are great but there’s no inherent wisdom in most of the decision-making tools out there. If you don’t have the discernment to interpret the results and the discernment to ask the right questions, even clear deciders like coin tosses can lead you astray.
As a coach and consultant working with corporate, [...]
“Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers.” [...]
Think coaching is a luxury? An add on? Something only for dysfunctional workers and organizations?
Think again because the data shows the opposite – coaching pays the highest return on investment when it’s used consistently at the leaderful edge, the way Olympians use their coaches. Coaching to problem solve pays off well, according to the studies [...]
Do something creative
Learn something new – about work or life.
Read a biography of a leader who intrigues you.
Give yourself think time as well as dream time.
Review and update job descriptions for yourself and everybody around you – schedule any and all meetings necessary to get them into their best shape [...]
From the Wall Street Journal
By PATRICK LENCIONI
Imagine two lists: One contains the qualities that a business person should have, and another includes the attributes that most business people would say they wouldn’t want to have. There’s only one term I can think of that might top both lists: vulnerability.
Whether we’re [...]
“The World is crying out for a new way of doing business. When the social enterprise concept becomes known and begins to spread through all free market economies, the flood of creativity it will unleash has the potential to transform our world”
~ Muhammad Yunus, winner Nobel Peace Prize 2006
I use Facebook and Twitter professionally so I have lots of connections there who I don’t know. I’m amazed by how many requests I get from people I know and don’t know about how they need to finish some project in a virtual world and they want me to contribute my time to creating their [...]
This video is a great take on failure. Great success really requires failure yet we haven’t trained our leaders to capitalize on it. Honda got it right:
