Category Archive: Success

The Generosity Advantage

Skill can’t compensate for a stingy heart. 

Advantage grows when it’s given.

Generosity multiplies influence.

Let what comes to you flow through you.

Do you know the four foundational strengths of generosity?

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The Glory of Leadership

Glory looks like the corner office. Big titles. Public praise. Fat bank accounts.

Loud glory is thin.

It fades fast. It thrives on applause. It makes you insecure, guarded, and manipulative.

Go ahead, seek real glory. Here’s how…

The 4 Secrets to Winning

Winning is dangerous.

Katie Ledecky won her first Olympic gold medal when she was 15 years old (a freshman in high school). At 28 she’s the most decorated female Olympian in history. She has 14 Olympic medals. Nine gold.

Success hasn’t hardened into nostalgia for Ledecky.

Don’t make winning your primary focus.

7 Ways to Get More Done and Still Have Fun

Doing less with more is negligent. Efficiency takes you further than flopping around like a fish on the dock.

Greatness requires joy. More with less sounds fantastic until you burn up.

How can you get more done and still love what you do?

A New Definition of Success

Measure success in human terms.

If you don’t aim to touch lives, you’ll succeed at being forgettable.

You can hit your numbers and miss people. Leadership is about enriching the lives of those around you.

How to Establish Connection with Anyone

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, works for roses, not people. People don’t like “any other name.” They like their own. I’m terrible with names. It might be genetic. I… Continue reading