Stress, personal and work-based, is part of everyone’s life and impossible to avoid but it is possible to alleviate it effectively. Personal life issues such as illness, relationship conflicts, and financial burdens are common and often lead to increased stress. Work life is accelerating and making increased demands. New communication technology makes us reachable and… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Professional Development
Vision, Context, Commitment, Responsibility (VCCR)
Like many teenagers, I longed for success. To achieve that success, I began to study the personal qualities and behavior that separates high achievers from ordinary performers. Later, in my business life, I was fortunate to meet and interview many highly successful individuals, and I would always ask what they saw as “their secret.” From… Read more »
Continuous Improvement: Stop Learning – Start Dying
“Once you stop learning, you start dying” Who said this? Thomas Edison Walt Disney Albert Einstein If you guessed Albert Einstein, you were right. However, both Edison and Disney were known to be fanatical about continuous improvement, discovery and innovation. Do you have a continuous improvement program for yourself, your team or your company? We… Read more »
Be a Better Leader – Address Unfulfilled Expectations
Does your staff know your expectations? It’s that time of year when we enroll people to support our game plans. We share those plans, then press ahead thinking we have been understood, only to discover we were wrong and things don’t get done. This is a classic example of unfulfilled expectations. Rather than fall into… Read more »
Can You Describe Your Natural Leadership Style to Others?
3 questions on your leadership style: Can you accurately describe your natural leadership style? Do you understand how your natural leadership style positively and negatively impacts others? Are you aware of what type of communication is needed to impact, support and empower all behavioral styles? Step 1 – Start with what is obvious or evident… Read more »
How to Define Your Business Culture
Not sure where you are right now? Confused about where you’re going? Don’t know why you’re doing what you’re doing? Not sure what you truly value? Your behavior is not in alignment with your values? Does what you are doing have little or no meaning to you? Have you reached a stage where you can’t… Read more »
Success and Satisfaction
RE: Success Do you have the success in life you want (as you define it)? If so, why? If not, why not? RE: Satisfaction Do you have the satisfaction in life you want (as you define it)? If so why? If not, why not? If you want to explore these three questions on these two… Read more »
Speaking Leader to Leader – Is Your Leadership Plan in Place?
I asked myself what I must do as the leader of my business (and life) to complete the year well and be prepared for this year. Developing my leadership plan is a key part of my business success and growth. My answers: Stop and review this year from both a personal and business standpoint. I… Read more »
Ignorance to Arrogance
We come into the world totally vulnerable, unable to walk, talk, read, or write and without the skills to support ourselves. We spend years in school to lose our ignorance (the word has an ugly connotation, but it is just not knowing), training to become capable, productive citizens. A select few become highly skilled at… Read more »
Bruce Lund on the Beginner’s Mind
Bruce Lund is the owner/founder of Lund and Company Innovation, a toy design (Inventors of Tickle Me Elmo) and product invention company (www.lundandcompany.com) dedicated to the proposition that toys are profoundly important. Great toys teach, entertain, surprise, inspire and invite inquiry. He began the business on his back porch 25 years ago and now works… Read more »
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