There is a natural comfort in doing what’s familiar, but the limitations are most certainly costly. A colleague of mine has a daughter in her 20s who is making the rounds of auditions for major symphony orchestras all over… Read more
How Do You Define Success? How You Do Impacts If You Are, Gallup Poll Says
Fame and fortune may or may not define success for you, but you owe it to yourself to make sure one way or another. You probably have spent your whole working life trying to succeed. But… Read more
5 Steps to Insure Where You End Up Is Where You Want to Be
You know where you want to be. You know where you are now. Here’s how you draw your own personal career map. The journey of 1000 miles must begin with some idea of where you’re… Read more
How To Overcome the Post-Project Blues
You’ve done something you always wanted to do! You’ve made your company proud! You’ve outdone yourself. Right? Congratulations. Now, I’m betting you are finding yourself smack up against the “letdown effect,” the one where you… Read more
One Essential Thing You Must Do to Keep Your Employees from Burning Out
If there’s one thing I know, it’s that feeling passionate about what you do, and excited to come to work every day, is the very definition of success. Everybody should have a “calling,” a “right… Read more
3 Best Kept Secret Events for Entrepreneurs
In a noisy content world filled with Insta-gurus and lifestyle influencers, our social media newsfeeds are bombarded with offers to attend events and seminars that promise to change our lives forever. But flying under the… Read more
This Is the Most Powerful Leadership Tool You Should Be Using Every Day
I’ve been going around saying “Love is just damn good business” for a long time, because I thoroughly believe that if you operationalize love on a daily basis in your work life, you will be… Read more
How to Work With People When They Are Wrong and You Are Right
If there’s ever been a time with such a politically and socially polarized mood among Americans, it wasn’t in my lifetime, and I wouldn’t want to go back there. It’s gotten to the point where… Read more
Google Did Something Big for Its Workers (You Can Google It)! You Should Try It
Google sent a memo out to its employees recently that was so unusual for the Silicon Valley giant that it made headlines. In short, it said: Hey, everybody! Time to focus on what we hired… Read more
How To Love What You Do Even If You Don’t Love Your Job
Graduation speakers, romantic comedies, and even our best friends from our freshman year of college have all, collectively, sold us a bill of goods. It turns out, you probably won’t get hit by Cupid’s arrow… Read more
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