What do you want your epitaph to say? And are you actively writing it every day? Think about it for a minute. After hundreds of conversations with people about what they want out of life, I believe this is a fundamental human desire. Some of us call it living in alignment or living our values.…
Category: Leadership
Selfishness at 30,000 Feet
There’s a thought I’ve seen multiple places that strikes me as so true that I’ve repeated it to anyone and everyone who will listen . . . that the greatest gift we can give others is our own happiness — that being selfish is a radically selfless act. Each of us has huge potential, has…
Kill Your To-Do List. It’s killing you.
I had a clipboard. It had a college-ruled notepad attached to it, and the top sheet was my to-do list. I would add to it constantly. As I completed things, I would cross them off. And at the end of every week, I would create a new, clean version of the list. Sound familiar? Maybe…
Organizational Beliefs
Every organization has operating manuals, procedure manuals, protocol. And there’s also a set of beliefs that drives every company. And these beliefs have much, much more influence over its success than any written manual. You can find them by asking employees to describe their company culture or operations, or their day-to-day experience at their job…