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Agent of Civility
- Category: Uncategorized
I hope your Thanksgiving was lovely and you managed the many interactions with family and friends as an Agent of Civility. Civility you ask? Really, what is that any more?...
Do what only YOU can do!
- Category: Execution, High Performance Teams, Management Focus, Uncategorized
Who does your job when you are busy filling in for someone else? My guess is that you had a plan for your day, your week, this month, this quarter...
Persistence
- Category: Uncategorized
Every few years, I ask business leaders what they believe to be the key to their success. I get responses like “”setting goals”, “sticking to your values”, “building a great...
Mentoring moments
- Category: Leadership, Uncategorized
If you have or have been a teenager, you know to seize that moment when someone is curious and camp there. “Hey Mom, can I ask you a question?”, “Hey...
Stay Flexible
- Category: Living Well, Overcome Obstacles, Uncategorized
It is hard to argue with logical time-tested advice. Stay flexible. It sounds good. However, the volatility in our business conditions has been exhausting. Business owners have been living like...
Spooky and getting spookier
The trick or treat economy continues to be extremely tricky and getting trickier. Darth Vader is the costume of choice for our 5 year old Grandson and it seems right...
It’s in the data
- Category: The Economy, Uncategorized
When the aggregate looks okay, but your spidey senses are tingling, the answer may be in the data that rises or falls first. It used to be that economists looked...
Begin with no
- Category: Time Management, Uncategorized
Have you noticed that you end your week wondering where the time went? You completed less than half the items on your check-list and are exhausted before your very busy...
The old guard
- Category: Living Well, Making better decisions, Uncategorized
The old guard of shaggy untrimmed palms stand in the dry creek bed in the middle of the oak trees, the poison oak and various native scrub of Griffith Park....
From strengths to superpowers
- Category: Uncategorized
It takes some serious self-awareness for a leader to turn your strengths into superpowers.Let’s review a step-by-step process. First: Identify your strengths. If you have taken a self assessment like...
Empathy is in short supply
- Category: Uncategorized
Empathy is defined as “recognizing, understanding, and appreciating how other people feel. Empathy involves being able to articulate your understanding of another’s perspective, and behaving in a way that respects...
What draws customers to you?
- Category: Marketing, Uncategorized
If you don’t want to be in the race to the bottom as the lowest priced vendor, what are you doing to distinguish yourself from the competition? Even if your...
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