Quit Managing Your Time… Manage Your Attention

Video of BP9IBrgx7eA No matter what you do, time marches on at its own pace—tick, tick, tick—and there's nothing you can do to change that (unless you can go pretty close to the speed of light). Time is the great equalizer; it runs at the same speed for everybody, rich or poor, jet pilot or…

Self-care

Here is an excerpt from Leadership Matters. It contains 31 daily insights to inspire extraordinary results. day 26: Self-care Can you recite the flight attendant’s safety speech? I bet you can. You know, the one that goes something like, “... In the event of a loss of cabin pressure, an oxygen mask will drop from…

Finding Your Team’s Sweet Spot

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Most types of sports equipment – a golf club, a tennis racquet, a baseball bat – have a certain spot that, if the ball hits it, will give the player the optimal result. Hitting this sweet spot yields a long drive down the fairway, a swift crosscourt return or home run swing. Every sport has…

Quit Managing Your Time… Manage Your Attention

Video of BP9IBrgx7eA Time is a great equalizer; it runs at the same speed for everybody, rich or poor, jet pilot or snail farmer. You can't manufacture time, you can't reproduce time, you can't slow time down or turn it around and make it run in the other direction. You can't trade bad hours for…

10 Risks for Growing Businesses

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Business is good in nearly every sector, but business leaders still need to be aware of 10 common risks associated with rapid growth:   Betting against the law. (legally required activities on the back burner) Operational infrastructure is underdeveloped. Product and service quality are declining. (customer needs are obscured by growth needs) Inability to quickly…

Leadership Vision

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Here is an excerpt from Leadership Matters. It contains 31 daily insights to inspire extraordinary results. day 30: Vision About 350 years ago, a shipload of travelers landed on the northeast coast of America. The first year, they established a town site. The next year, they elected a town government. The third year, the town…

Quit Moving… and Be Still

Video of nTm1-Sh_DTo The blinding speed of today's information-saturated, time-deprived, hyper-competitive world forces us to run, run, run just to keep pace. Alarm! Snooze button. Alarm! Check phone for emails and texts. Shower. Check headlines. Check voice mail. Drive to office. Check email. Check schedule. Join global teleconference in progress. Reply to incoming text messages - and that's just the…

2 Ways to Master the Art of Adherence

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We are pleased to announce that the U.S. Patent office has approved the registration of the Adherence Equation as a registered service mark. We have been applying and validating this simple, yet powerful equation with clients for 14 years.  World-class leaders and organizations have used this time-tested formula for executing their plans. A good plan…

Making Early Decisions

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(This post is excerpted from The 5 Coaching Habits of Excellent Leaders.) Making early decisions about your priorities provides a double benefit for boosting your personal reliability. For example, you might say that your order of priorities for how you spend your time might be family, work, friends and community. Making that early decision about…

Manage Timelines to Meet Deadlines

(This post is excerpted from The 5 Coaching Habits of Excellent Leaders.) The past two posts have addressed the keys to Personal Reliability which provides a booster effect for Reliable Coaching.  In other words, if you are seen as personally reliable, it is much easier to use the 5 coaching habits of excellent leaders.  The…