Delegate: Help for Overworked Managers

High aspiration people – who don’t delegate – work themselves to oblivion. They don’t see how they hinder the team.

What causes managers to work too hard?

7 things to say to people who don’t delegate…

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…

Choose Your Stress Wisely

You can’t lower stress by avoiding difficult situations. But confronting difficult situations causes stress too. Both choices are stressful.

What kind of stress do you want?

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.