The Decision Dance
About a million years ago (or what feels like it at this point), I had the experience of taking a tango lesson in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Although it was super...
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Know Less
The title of today's TPF is "Know Less". Traditionally, we seek to know more, not to know less. Yet learning to know less can have the potential to produce not only...
Maintaining Credibility
Credibility erodes when promises are broken. Depending on one's expectations of a situation, a change in company direction can be viewed by some as a broken "promise." For example: Was there...
Meaningful Goals
Paraphrasing a message I heard last month at a meeting with one of my favorite client organizations... "Congratulations on an outstanding year; we over-delivered, our customer service scores were through...
The Currency of Time
Here we are....the Final Thought Partner Friday for 2024! I still remember sitting down to write the very first Thought Partner in January of 2021! I might add that what...
3 Tips for Beating Procrastination
Last week we discussed how being powerful in the present helps us win the future. If you missed that Thought Partner, you can find it here. This week, we will...
Power in the Present
When we're powerful in the present, we master the future.When we're not, we won't. I'll use myself as a perfectly pedantic example of failing to be powerful in the present...
An Attitude of Gratitude
Yesterday, in the United States, many of us celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday, a time dedicated to giving thanks and expressing gratitude for the fortune and favor we experience and sometimes...
Developing Others
Last week's Thought Partner was titled Developing Yourself.This week's Thought Partner is titled Developing Others. Ideally, the sweet spot appears when the two happen simultaneously. We call that intersection, Delegation. The...
Developing Yourself
"I found the [workshop] to be informational, fun, and interesting and to shed light on the vast differences with not only those in our training group, but our crew, and...