Expert Guidance for the Agile Organisation
Leadership Memo 2024-4 Imagine the challenges facing a US$50 billion multi-national company with a 160-year history: share price at a 20-year low (down 50% from a year ago), litigation, high debt, and losing patents on some of their most important…
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As a subscriber to this blog, you’re among the first to know about the opening of my Focused Action Results (F.A.R.) Unlimited Laser Coaching Program. You’ll see in a moment why this matters. Almost every leader I know, from the…
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Leadership Memo 2024-1 Happy New Year! Did you have a refreshing time away from work? Now that you’re back from the break, do you find yourself having lots of ideas swimming in your head or flashes of insights that enable…
Read More What the Holidays Teach Us In How to Reignite Our Creativity
We usually think of failure as negative. But wise people know how to take advantage of it. They learn from it. They use it as an education. How can failures be good? 1. Failures can educate us. Mistakes are simply…
Read More Would you be surprised if I tell you that failure can be good for you?
Never forget this truth: Most failures won’t kill you. We vastly exaggerate the effects of failure. We blow the prospects of failing all out of proportion. Failing is not the end of the world. The fear of failure is far…
Read More What do you do when you fail? Give up or keep going?
In some cultures, failure is almost the unpardonable sin. That’s because we idolize success. But that kind of pressure creates major stress for people. The fear of failure has many different faces. It can cause us to be indecisive, a…
Read More Do you realize that the fear of failure has a maddening grip on our lives?
Leadership Memo 2023-12 Would you agree that failure (try something out that didn’t work the way you’d hoped) is a lot more common in highly uncertain environments than it is in better-understood situations? Yet, instead of learning from failures, many…
Read More How do you treat your intelligent failures? Embarrassed or excited?
We are at the end of this mini-series. We’ve discussed how to deal with difficult people and the demanding people. Last week, we looked at people who disappoint us. Today, we’re going to discuss how to deal with people who…
Read More What do we do when people hurt us? Don’t Repeat the Hurt. Let It Go!
Everyone in our life is going to disappoint us at some point. Why? Because no one is perfect! So, how do we deal with disappointing people? Be rude and judgemental? Would you believe me if I told you we can…
Read More Responding with Grace: How to Deal with Disappointing People
Some people always want their own way. They’ve got a right way and a wrong way to do something, and your way is always the wrong way. When you don’t meet their standards, they’re going to let you know about…
Read More Empathy in Action: Being Tender Without Surrender to Demanding Behaviour
