Talk Builds the Future
The future isn’t waiting—it’s under construction now. Words are hammers. Habits are nails.
The world you live in today was built—in part—by the way you talked yesterday.
If tomorrow feels dark, how will you talk to remodel it?
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Reclaim Your Team’s Energy
Meetings make work harder—they drain energy.
We can’t expect high performance from people shackled with fatigue.
Our minds are distracted. Our bodies are tense. Our agenda is crammed.
Choose energy before agenda.
Here’s how to reclaim energy in 2-minutes.
Confronting the Confidence Trap
Indecision parks the bus. Confidences hits the gas. Closed minds ignore the cliff.
The Day I Gave My Wife Instruction
Yesterday my wife said, “You drive weird.” In a professorial tone, I told her, “That’s judging, not observing.” She got instruction she didn’t ask for.
She was laughing too loud to hear me.
Grasping the relationship between Feedback-Correction-Instruction-Coaching-Mentoring
Why Good Leaders Fail (and Don’t See It Coming)
A one-string banjo doesn’t sound happy. Overconfidence in one strength brings leaders down.
Visionaries fail when they can’t get stuff done. Relationship builders fail when they don’t have tough conversations. Doers without empathy build disengaged teams.
Leaders fail by leaning too hard on one strength.
Don’t Forget the Banjo: Leading Through Crisis
The survival of Ernest Shackleton’s crew is the greatest survival saga in human history.
AUGUST 8, 1914—28 men departure for Antarctica.
AUGUST 30, 1916—The crew is rescued.
The survival of all 28 men is a tribute to the human spirit.
One lesson: Don’t forget the banjo when leading through crisis.