Personal Development
Why You can’t always get what you want…
Every year, billions of people decide to start the New Year off in a different way. Maybe they will quit smoking? Perhaps they will choose to ...
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Personal Development
Stop Chasing Success: How to BE the Leader Your Business Needs
Almost everyone gets into business to experience success. And to do that, they are thinking of something along the lines of. “If I DO this, I ...
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Are You Motivated or Disciplined: Which Will Deliver Results?
I was thinking about this recently and realized there is a distinction between Motivation and Discipline. Merriam Webster defines motivation as the condition of being motivated ...
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The most important Conversation: the one you have with yourself
When I was young I ran with the wrong crowd. A job transfer for my dad allowed me to narrowly miss being sent to a military ...
Read MoreLeadership
Why Not Just Call It Presence?
Clients often ask me about developing Executive Presence, Leadership Presence, or Command Presence. Why not just call it presence? What is it? How do we develop ...
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Is There a Blind Spot
I recently had lunch with a friend and he was telling me about an organization (a startup) they had 28 people turn over in the last ...
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Why Are We So Afraid?!!!
I am fascinated by the effect communications has on our ability to perform and thrive. Then, over the weekend, I had the same insight delivered ...
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But, I hate Small talk
Get over it. Small talk is a way to create social cohesion. Think back to the last time you went into a meeting where the other ...
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You Say You Want a Promotion? Can you communicate?
I just returned from a workshop where the trainer had people list out on sticky-notes the characteristics of someone that really made a dramatic impact on ...
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Your Attitude Cloud
I was reminded recently of the comic strip character, Pig Pen from the strip Peanuts. He was the little kid that walked around with a cloud ...
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So….You want to be empowered?
I often hear individuals speak about how they want to feel empowered or perhaps they want the company or their boss to empower them. What is ...
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Are you Broadcasting, Lurking or Engaging?
I have been moderately active in social media for a few years now. And I can sort people into Broadcasters, Lurkers and Engagers. Broadcasters just push ...
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Welcome to “The Immeasurable Things that Make a Measurable Difference”
The purpose of this blog is to help you on your journey from strive to Thrive. While the name may seem long, it captures the essence that there are things that are hard to measure - culture, values, attitudes - yet they make a measurable, and immeasurable, difference in life and results.
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Bitterness and Hyperbole…Really:
Recently I opened Facebook and caught a comment by an author whose book had uplifted me and he was joined on the comment thread by another inspiring author. Both of these gentlemen are nationally
known speakers and writers on leadership. They speak to the need for authenticity and genuineness in business, and how our intentions matter and how we should look to inspire others with our actions.
And then I read further. They were both complaining about how a specific politician was full of hyperbole and bitterness and how no politician had ever ...
Business Culture
Are you threatening the lives of your team: Why disrespect is seen as a threat to life.
I recently reconnected with an old friend and colleague who I worked with early in my career. Jack Hoban is an author, a combat instructor
and a corporate transformation executive. His new book The Warrior Ethic presents an interesting premise:
When you disrespect someone, (in their mind back in the reptilian brain) you are threatening their life. Is it any wonder that practice isn’t working so well?
In an environment where over half of us are not engaged in our jobs and ...
