Why Your Boss Is Keeping You Away from the Strategic Table… RIGHT NOW… Are you setting the stage for your organization’s future? Or sitting in a big pile of strategic sewage – basting in all the stuff that rolls downhill from the corner office and directly into your cubical? If you’ve tried everything to gain […]
Does Your Boss Need Ego Bypass Surgery? Read More »
The average daily dose of business email is 121 messages: 13% totally irrelevant to you, 20% unnecessarily include you, 54% require no action by you. Email use increases even as email processing saps productivity, costs money and heightens stress: 15% rise in email traffic since 2011. Even with the introduction of email alternatives like texting
Is your email killing you? (FLASHBACK) Read More »
1973: Sporting short-shorts, bad hair and glasses only Austin Powers could love; Bobby Riggs took center court to battle one of women’s top tennis stars, Billy Jean King. The match captured a record-shattering global viewership of 90 million. At stake was far more than the outcome of tennis match. The world tuned in to witness
Our Daughters, Our Sons… And the Wisdom to Know the Difference Read More »
When do you checkout of work and check into the weekend? OFFICAL CHECKOUT TIME FROM WORK Friday, 5:00 PM Apparently not! Using a proprietary survey technology, our latest research sought to pinpoint the exact time people move from focusing on work, to working on the weekend. CHECKOUT TIME FOR MOST OF US? Thursday, 9:52 AM
New Research, Sheds New Light on Hump Day Read More »
Success is exhausting! Why? Because success isn’t enough – we want perfection. We want the unbeaten, perfect season. We want it all and want to break every record along the way. There’s is only room for one at the tippy-top of any endeavor, which is a real math problem in a world with 7.5 billion
Failure Becomes You: Why Failure Is So Hot… (Part III) Read More »
What do former Metropolitan Museum social media executive, Sree Sreenivasan, and sexting ex-Congressman, Anthony Weiner, have in common? About the same age, both were incredibly successful residents of New York: Sree, a highly regarded Columbia School of Journalism professor, Anthony, a seven-term winning politician. Both were the first to occupy the posts that would make
How to Succeed at Failure: The Failure Formula (Part II) Read More »
And other de-motivational words of wisdom… Did you ever have one of those everything-that-could-go-wrong-goes-wrong days? Ever have the kind of day that leaves you thinking that the purpose of our life is only to serve as a warning to others? No one is perfect. Yet, we are inundated, tantalized and teased with perfection, every day,
Failure is the New Success! (PART 1) Read More »
My entire career, I’ve been watching. Every interaction, every meeting, every pitch – I’d watch and wonder HOW? HOW can I be more like this person or avoid becoming that person? HOW can I get this or prevent that? HOW can I be successful? The answer was simple. Stop asking HOW and start asking WHY?
Exploring Work Family Roles… You’ve probably thought about who your work wife or husband is, now it’s time to consider the rest of your work family. Here’s a fun look at some of the work family roles I’ve encountered… which one are you? Work Parent (can be a man or a woman): This self-appointed adult
What Have Those Fockers at Work Gotten You Into? Read More »
Watching the world’s top athletes compete in the Rio games is an instructive reminder to anyone striving for top professional performance. Winning at the highest level is seldom a Usain Bolt blowout. No, becoming the best is far more likely to resemble a Michael Phelps win-by-a-fingernail affair. Consider these facts I featured in back in
A Mile or a Millimeter: Learning to Win Like the Best Read More »