The last several years I have been hooked on the “Dans” – Pink, Kahneman and Ariely.  They all seem to come around to something Malcom Gladwell shared in an interview for The Costco Connection.  He said “my last three books in particular have made me suspicious of the way that all of us as human beings react to the world.”  He went on to say “The assumptions we carry around in our heads aren’t very good.  Our first impressions of things can sometimes be really terrible.”  His new...

Every picture we create in our minds has a magnetic power. These “Attractive Powers” have been measured and quantified through the use of behavioral kinesiology as described in books including Power Vs. Force by Dr. David Hawkins M.D., Ph.D.  Power is universal and energizing, while the use of Force always creates its own resistance and is a negative drain on ourselves, our organizations and the world as a whole...

If you have come to this posting in follow up to one of many keynote presentations congratulations and thank you.  Most people have good intentions in the moment but it is easy to fall back into the daily grind of too much to do and too little time to invest in yourself.   You are your most important investment. 

According to   Nobel Prize-winning scientist Daniel Kahneman, each day we are given 20,000 moments.

  For most a vast majority of these moments are simply reruns or what has been ...

I was recently required to submit a resume for a “leadership coaching and team development” consulting contract and realized my past leadership experience tells nothing about my skills as a leader today.

Demographics have changed, responsibilities have changed, and expectations have changed.  It is not enough to get better at doing what we have always done.  We have to understand the role of leadership in a completely different way...

Simple ideas understood by all are both the salve and the anchors that keep a team’s “eye on the prize” in challenging times.  Vineet Nayar in his book Employees First, Customers Second used the story of the “Big Windows” he discovered at a friend’s home in Amsterdam to focus his team on the value (and discomfort) of transparency.  He shared this story with absolutely everyone so they all had a common language...