Category Archive: Leadership Development

The Goldilocks Paradox: When Stress is Just Right

Stress doesn’t kill you, what you believe does.

When you think stress is bad for you – it is.

When you think stress brings out your best – it does.

There’s research…

Stop Gift Giving at Work

Obligatory gifts aren’t gifts. Generosity requires freedom. 

Generosity delights everyone. Gift giving at work doesn’t.

Here are 5 rules for gift giving at work (if you can’t escape it).

Confronting the 12 Lies Self-Doubt Loves

Normal people dance with self-doubt.

Doubt ignores you until you imagine something new.

Doubt hates dreams.

Self-doubt seeks to protect you.

Here are some simple strategies to help you dance with self-doubt.

Delegate: A New 5-Step Approach

Failure to delegate is misguided compassion or short-sighted arrogance. Maybe both.

Don’t insult people’s capacity with the ridiculous notion that work should be easy.

Here’s a 5-step method to choose things to delegate today.

Destroy Your Ideas and Other Charlie Munger Quotes

I like Charlie Munger ideas. He was a curmudgeon who said what he thought. It’s preferable to learn from people who actually say something.

Charlie died November 28, 2023, at 99 having not liked vegetables.

3 surprising Munger quotes that will rock your world…

Overcoming Self-Defeating Behaviors

Self-defeating behaviors are like tires with holes. It doesn’t matter how many times you pump them up.

Here are 3 self-defeating behaviors you can rise above today.

What self-defeating behaviors do you see in yourself? In others?