How can we have peace and clarity when our circumstances are increasingly complex and messy? Here are 4 steps that may not calm the storm, but will enable to you to walk on the waves.
When you are working to meet deadlines, feeling under pressure, and working with people who operate very differently from you, conflict can blow up in your face at any moment and threaten your success. So do you just get through it quickly, manage it, avoid it, or embrace it?
At this time of year, we typically focus on the enjoyable things we have experienced. But what about the many hard things this year has brought? Are we supposed to pretend all is well in the world, even when we're hurting, struggling and grieving?
History shows that 50-60 percent of executives fail in their first executive role. To understand this, business consultant Ron Carucci studied successful executives to find what they did differently from those who did not succeed. He discovered four key factors. Read on.
Perhaps someone was having a little fun with Photoshop here, but think about this picture for just a second. Instead of saying, “Wow, that dude is in really great shape,” you'd probably think, “Yikes! Something went wrong there!” Yet we make the same mistake when we allow ourselves to think of our work as merely a means to an end. Read on and I'll explain.
Each person is born with leadership qualities and has the opportunity to help others at a personal level. The acronym I-N-F-L-U-E-N-C-E gives us nine principles that are critical in the mentoring process.
Lou Gehrig may not have died from Lou Gehrig's disease after-all, but instead from symptoms caused by the many concussions he encountered in his long career. Gehrig was really good at what he did, but what he did may have ruined his life. This prompts a question for us today: are the benefits of our work worth the costs - to us and those we love?
Each of us has elements of our jobs that we are not good at and don’t like doing. But there is hope for us in the midst of performing those painful tasks, and encouragement in those frustrating moments.
Email hacks make for juicy news, but they can be devastating for those involved. There's a lesson in there for all of us - "private" doesn't always stay private.
There's a difference between belief and conviction. Beliefs shape our view of the world around us. Convictions, however, determine our conduct and motivate us to actually take action.