Better Leaders. Better Results.
Do you have an effective approach for thinking about your career growth? With things like a “jobless economic recovery,” careers ending, and a “skills-for-hire” economy, it’s even more important to focus on growth while managing your career. At the end of the day, you play the most important role in your career growth – own …
A while back, a colleague challenged me to find something simple and sticky for the big idea behind Sources of Insight. After trying several phrases, here’s the one that stuck: Skilled for Life He liked it because it had punch. It also had a play on words, and you could read it two different ways. …
Where does the world’s best insight come from? Yourself. Sure, somebody can lead you along, but it has to be your light bulb that goes off. You are your most important change agent (and you are your most important meaning maker.) Nobody can just hand you a bucket of brilliant conclusions and expect meaningful change. …
How do you get past deadlocks in a meeting? You know the ones, where everybody is arguing their point, talking past each other, violently agreeing (though they don’t know it), and things heat up fast, and no decisions or progress get made. Fear not, young corporate warrior—there is a tried and true practice for dealing …
It’s obvious in retrospect, but I found a distinction between low-friction communication and high-friction communication. By low-friction, I mean *person A* doesn’t have to work that hard for *person B* to get a point. I find low friction scenarios are often cases where *person B* starts with the mind-set “how might that be true” and …
