What if you could gather in one place all the important lessons you wanted your children or grandchildren to learn? What if you applied those same principles for success to your life? June 9th is the official release date of my friend Brian Bartes’s new book Life Lessons: A Guide to Creating and Living Your… Continue Reading Life Lessons
Former Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca once noted that “you can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere”. The foundation to earning support for ideas includes good leadership, communication and planning. Even ideas we are convinced are the best will be implemented only when others become convinced.… Continue Reading Winning Others Over
Early in my career, I began to notice a trend: As I signed up for more and more responsibilities, I experienced increasing amounts of stress. I started to worry about whether I would be able to deliver on all of my promises as I watched my list of commitments grow taller and taller.Because I was… Continue Reading Conquering Job Stress
At one point in my career, I managed people in 10 different offices around the country. I realized that if I wanted to help these employees feel connected to what we were doing in our headquarters office, I needed to make myself more visible and visit each office on a regular basis. This gave me… Continue Reading The Valuable (And Sometimes Surprising) Benefits of Rounding
I just returned from a two-week vacation. This was a real vacation. No email, no voicemail and no working on the business. This is what vacations are for, and the extent to which we can truly disconnect from our daily work, one or two times a year, we can expect to return to our customers, our colleagues and… Continue Reading What I Learned on My Vacation
On September 21, we launched the 9th cohort of our Institute for Leadership Fitness with 15 new executives. In this first of four quarterly workshops, we introduce a tool called The Confidence Net. Every leader is encouraged to create their own “confidence net” to mitigate the effect, and lower the volume, of their “inner voices” or self-doubts. After presenting the… Continue Reading What's Holding You Back?