Hiring, anywhere, is the hardest task that you will ever undertake. It’s easy to be lured by the “Superstar” who has accomplished so much or reads well on paper. And perhaps they are that great, resource and amazing as everyone thinks they are. But what happens when they are not there? What happens if everyone on your team comes to depend on the Superstar more than they do...
What’s your GoTo emotion? When things are going well? When they are going bad? What did you default to? The more I try and find new and interesting sites to read information to make me laugh or learn more about a particular topic the more I feel that our new GoTo Emotion (especially online) is Shame. Someone doesn’t think they way we do? Shame. Someone has a different idea, radical...
I read this awhile ago on someone’s twitter account and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. The person changed his handle to be something else (i.e., not his name) and his response to a question was – “I’m Branding myself to be this”. That used to be called “changing your attitude”, “getting a new perspective”...
This is the list of everything we have in life that we want to do. We want to accomplish. We wish we could get done on time. If we were able to do everything, we’d be a huge success. If people read more of our work we could then do these things. The Wanna Do List is where our hopes and dreams live, where in a perfect world we would get it all done, no distractions, no mistakes, no worries...
They aren’t there to help you. They exist to take away value from what you are creating. They come in many forms (too many to list). Really they should be called “Distractors” because their goal is to get under your skin and shift your focus from what you are doing to anything else. Anything that stops you from generating value, breaking down walls and disrupting the norm. They...