What If You Don’t Love Your Work?
The ideal state for all of us at work—from leadership to the front line—is to do what you love in the service of people who love what you do. The emotion of love is often considered to be out of place...
View ArticleGuidelines For Gratitude
This is a good time of year to remind yourself of the people you’re grateful for, and then let them know by writing (and delivering) a “Professional Love Note.” Don’t be surprised if it ends up being...
View Article4 Steps to Finding the Love
Yes, you want your customers to love doing business with you, and you want your colleagues and employees to love working with you, but the most important element in the practice of cultivating Love is,...
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The Leadership Challenge: 25 Extraordinary Years
I know it’s a cliche to call anything other than The Bible, a “bible,” but The Leadership Challenge, by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, really is the bible of leadership research and exposition. Their...
View ArticleSpring Cleaning
Not that this kind of thing should be reserved exclusively for springtime, but any excuse for a good, old-fashioned eradication. So, there’s no time like the present to purge the energy-suckers around...
View ArticleOld Wisdom for New Teams?
Way back in 1995, I had the great pleasure of seeing the legendary management sage, Peter Drucker, speak about teams and teamwork at a conference for training industry executives. Keep in mind the...
View ArticleWhat Do You Talk About With Your Team?
No matter the structure of your team, no matter the challenge your team is working on, and no matter the proximity (or lack thereof) of its members, there are three things all successful teams have in...
View ArticleConversation 1: Personal Discovery
As promised, here is the first of my 3 Conversations You Need to Have With Your Team–virtual or otherwise. To prepare for Conversation 1, write down the names of the people on your team. Now, list...
View ArticleConversation 2: What Is This Project or Team Really About?
John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, once said in an interview that a business should be able to identify and articulate its “higher meaning and purpose.” Yes, money is important. So are the...
View ArticleConversation 3: What Does Success Look Like For Us?
It’s become conventional wisdom that in order to get people excited about the present, you should talk about the future. You should have a vision of where you’re aspiring to go and communicate it...
View ArticleThe Right Way to Converse With a Virtual Team
In this series of posts about leading virtual and unconventional teams, I’ve suggested some important conversations you should facilitate across the distance. That’s the “what.” Now, let’s talk about...
View ArticleThe Radical Question
The powerful Net Promoter Score system started out by asking a very simple question: What is the likelihood that you would recommend Company X to a friend or colleague? And if you think about what that...
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Growing From Your Mistakes
Legendary speaker and business author, Bob Burg, has just released his new book, Adversaries Into Allies. In it, he offers lots of great, bite-sized insights into how to become an Ultimate...
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How to Master Your Master Mind
The term “Master Mind” has been part of our modern day lexicon since Napoleon Hill wrote about its power in Think And Grow Rich, which was originally published in 1937. And for good reason. There are...
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4 Steps to Tracking Your Commitments
In response the challenge in my previous post, Bob “Batch” Batcheler launched himself on a personal Do What You Say You Will Do campaign. He shared his experience in the comments: “One of the things...
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When Was the Last Time You Wrote One of These?
When it comes to strumming the heart strings at work (or anywhere else), nothing beats a personal, hand-written note of thanks, praise, or gratitude–especially in these hyper-digital days of texts and...
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The Success Principles
Jack Canfield (of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame) is a significant mentor to more thought-leaders, authors, and entrepreneurs than anyone else I know. 10 years ago, Jack founded The Transformational...
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A Stunning, New Leadership Lens
As a 21st century Extreme Leader and life-long learner, you are constantly looking for ways to improve yourself, not just for your own advancement, but also for the greater good. You know that you...
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You’re Successful But Are You Successful?
I’ve met and known a lot of people who’ve made piles of cash and feel like they have nothing to show for it. I mean, they have stuff. They have stuff to point at but not the stuff that really matters:...
View ArticleConversation 3: What Does Success Look Like For Us?
It’s become conventional wisdom that in order to get people excited about the present, you should talk about the future. You should have a vision of where you’re aspiring to go and communicate it...
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