A car that won’t start requires root cause analysis. But people development and culture building may not. We spend too much time asking ‘why’ and not enough time exploring ‘what’. If your team… Continue reading
It’s natural to obsess over one bad thing and forget many good things.
Life is better than it seems for negative people.
How to escape the small box that negative thoughts creates.
Glen wasn’t thrilled with my use of “obsessed”.
Glen Van Peski said, “Always thinking about better ways to do things … can be frankly annoying to people.”
We talk about, having enough, drive to be better, bacon, and more.
Positive thinking doesn’t cure cancer or prevent wars. Unrealistic optimism might cause wars and increase the likelihood you’ll get cancer.
You do stupid things when you underestimate the possibility of failure.
3 ways to be a realistic optimist…
The world is ugly when you’re filled with discontentment.
Discontent with the past drags you into helplessness. But discontent with the present is opportunity to change the future.
Contentment isn’t passivity.
This post offers 7 practices that move leaders toward the right kind of discontentment.
One leader said, “I realized my supervisors weren’t supervising because I was doing it for them.
Don’t handicap people.
Be the reason people step up.
