Just Ship It
I WANT TO FAIL. Everyone successful fails. Success follows failure, launching a flop of a program, solving the equation incorrectly, going back to the drawing board with your team after being...
Reasons OR Results
You might have heard the following before: The unsuccessful have REASONS. The successful have RESULTS.You can't have BOTH. Try these REASONS on for size: I can't move forward on this project...
A Magic Trick to Create More Time
I need more time.How do I get more time?Where did all the time go?Why do I never have enough time? Time. Time. Time. We're obsessed with time. It's consumable, we...
Recalibrating 2021
Happy Fri-YAY, Thought Partners! Here's a sobering thought...2021 is roughly half over! How is that possible? Does anyone else think this year has flown by or are you a member of the...
Weighing on the Scale of Satisfaction
As we round off this month's discussions of leadership strength, fitness and service, I challenge you to end the month by stepping step on the scale. Did you just give me...
In SERVICE of what does not SERVE US
In keeping with this month's theme of assessing our leadership fitness, my goal is to make today's Thought Partner Friday one of my leanest and tightest yet! Most gurus say if you...
How Fit Are You?
If I were to ask you to rate your fitness level on a scale of 1 to 10, how would you do it?What parameters would you use to determine the...
Is It A Strength or Are You Strong?
Ella Fitzgerald sang it best...Summertime and the living is easy... Welcome to JUNE, Thought Partners! Summer Fridays (if you're in the Northeast or Midwest), Endless Summers (if you're on the...
The Story I’m Telling Myself Is…
We often exacerbate and compound our stress by “borrowing" anxiety from the future. What makes this anxiety “loan” even more problematic is that most of these thoughts are not rooted in...
Having a Hard Conversation? Keep These 4 Words in Mind.
As you know, this month we're focusing on ways we can feedFORWARD vs. FeedBACK. You can catch up on what you've missed here.Let's first address the elephant in the room.Quietly...