Gravitas: What It Is, Why You Need It and How to Get It
Gravitas is critical to your leadership. Why? And what is it? Gravitas comes from the Latin meaning weight or heaviness. In business as in life, gravitas is about being taken seriously. It signals your...
View ArticleHow to Lead for What Comes Next
Do you know what is going to come next post-pandemic? I don’t. Like most, I have some ideas and informed opinions, but I’m no futurist. Nobody is sure what will happen next, but almost everybody agrees...
View ArticleMake the Most of Your Mentor List
I ran across an old message on Facebook from an older friend congratulating me for an achievement. He added, “I am proud to have been an early mentor.” And I was proud to include him on my mentor list....
View ArticleThe Leader’s Most Important Job
Can you guess what is the most important thing to be as a leader? You can probably guess all sorts of things: relationship building, communication, awareness, positivity, innovation…the list goes on....
View ArticleEmbrace the AND: Focus on Problems AND Opportunities
While the stock market struggles, problems and challenges are at an all time high. Lately we’ve faced problems of a magnitude we didn’t expect nor could have predicted and they demanded our attention....
View ArticlePost 1000: Observations and Conclusions
WordPress tells me this is my thousandth blog post. How do you write a thousand blogs? One at a time. If you do anything long enough, the cumulative result can be big. So what have I learned that...
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6 Things You Can Do to Become a More Thoughtful Person
Are you a thoughtful person? Most people consider thoughtfulness to be a positive attribute and would take it as a compliment to be considered thoughtful. But do you deliberately pursue being...
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What Makes A Leader Successful Today? Intentionality and the 3 Shifts
Have you ever wondered what one thing all successful leaders have in common? First consider what all unsuccessful leaders have in common: they lack focus. They either aren’t clear on what they’re...
View ArticleBuilding Mental Muscle: 20 Servings of Food for Thought.
To build muscle, lift heavier weight. Muscle doesn’t grow without resistance. To think better, tackle more difficult questions. Intellectual powers don’t grow without resistance. It isn’t enough to...
View Article4 Things To Do When You Disappoint Someone At Work
Do you know what it feels like to disappoint someone? Have you ever disappointed someone at work? We probably all know what it feels like to disappoint someone. It’s not a good feeling. “I’m...
View ArticleAdmirable Faith
My friend John lives in a community not far from me. Recently they were evacuated due to fires that threatened to jump a barrier and ignite the homes in there. John posted a picture of the dense smoke...
View ArticleWhy I Bought a Watch I Don’t Really Need
In the midst of a revolution to reform or defund the police, there wasn’t much support for the good men and women in law enforcement. The focus was almost exclusively on the bad actors, and lots...
View ArticleThe Critical Question for Your Company’s Success
The answer to this question is the difference between assured successful or possible extinction in your business.I’m not going to call it “The Million Dollar Question” because depending on the size of...
View ArticleIt is Time to Renew Your Routine
One of the many challenges of Covid was the disruption of routine. As creatures of habit, we all had routines around going to work and the activities of our personal lives. These routines were...
View ArticleHurry is the Enemy
My long time friend Glenna Salsbury recommended a book. I ordered it, and while it was a good book worthy of reading, the title powerfully impacted my life. It is called, The Ruthless Elimination of...
View ArticleHow Big is Walden Pond? And Why it Matters
Whoever first said curiosity killed the cat might have been smoking something. Sure, sticking your nose into business not your own can end badly, but more often than not true curiosity makes for a...
View ArticleThe Art of Acknowledgement
A salesperson from Pitney Bowes left a message on my office voicemail that my lease on the postage machine was almost up and he could help me lock in a savings for uninterrupted service. I returned...
View Article6 Things to Do After the Election
This is the most anxiety fraught election I’ve experienced in my lifetime.I would hope–although recent events don’t suggest it–that whatever happens on election night and the weeks after wouldn’t...
View ArticleTiny Reminders
Before Covid I often found myself in Las Vegas to speak. Sometimes I got to wander off the beaten path of the strip and on this particular trip I was on Fremont Street in old Las Vegas. I saw a sign...
View ArticleNobody Wants Unsolicited Advice
I had just finished dinner at a little restaurant near the beach in Santa Monica. I was walking out to my rental car. As I was walking to my car, I was approached by a panhandler, a street-beggar, a...
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