Tag Archive: Growth

Seize Pivotal Moments

Pivotal moments disrupt life. Running from them shrinks your future.

Pivotal moments are interventions that expand potential.

Marcus Aurelius said, “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

Here’s how to seize pivotal moments for your advantage.

Your Ego the Saboteur

Egoless is a myth.

Ego reacts before you think. It defends before you listen. It pushes before you understand.

“The busier and more overwhelmed we are, the more our Ego runs our show.”

Don’t eliminate ego. Manage it.

Here’s how…

7 Questions That Build Leaders

The alternative to evaluation is self-deception.

In your head you’re a superstar. But the team struggles with your mediocrity. Bridge the perception gap with questions.

How are you making yourself unnecessary?

How are you making yourself accountable?

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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…

Regrets Before Resolutions

“No regrets,” is a self-destructive way to think about your past. Dan Pink explains in The Power of Regret.

There are 4 core regrets. Connection regrets are the most pervasive.

“The pathway to new year’s resolutions is to think about our old year’s regrets.”

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Find the Secret Pace

The secret pace wins the race.

Too fast and you collapse.

Too slow and finishing is irrelevant.

When you outpace capacity, people break.

Fast is fragile. Speed without capacity falls apart. No one give 100% all the time.

The secret pace takes teams farther than sprinting all day.

6 Practices That Set the Secret Pace…