Feel the Fear and Then Do It Anyway
In Jack Canfield's book, The Success Principles, he tells the story of a seminar where he held a $100 bill in the air and asked the audience, "Who wants this $100 bill?" Almost everyone raised their hands, dozens of people shouted "I'll take it!"...
Optimizing Your MBA
It's not like they suddenly discovered that they were going to have thousands of hours of free time on their hands that needed to be filled. Yet here they were, on the verge of one of those key life moments, looking ready, excited, a little stressed, and a bit...
Book Summary: “Taming Your Gremlin” by Rick Carson
The author's subtitle to his book is "A Surprising Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way" and his stated goal is to help you enjoy yourself more each day. The premise is that we all have a "vile, vicious, villainous, insufferably bully lurking...
Buyers Beware of What Hollywood Can Teach Us
Have you ever watched a movie and immediately known that some parts of it would stick with you for a long time? That happened to me when I first saw the critically-acclaimed Glengarry GlenRoss, a 1992 movie about four real estate salesmen who use mostly deceptive...
Book Summary: “Thank God It’s Monday” by Roxanne Emmerich
The author's subtitle to her book is "How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Love", and she addresses topics such as visioning, driving change, upping enthusiasm, and eliminating gossip. Emmerich's premise is that there are actually places where...
Lessons from a Lemonade Stand
A few weeks ago, on a sweltering Sunday afternoon, my son decided that he wanted to sell lemonade. Not wanting to stifle his entrepreneurial spirit, I agreed to help...even though it was nearly 100 degrees outside and I was pretty comfortable inside in the air...
The Formula for Success
STRIVING. PERFORMING. ACHIEVING. Those three words say a lot. When you STRIVE, you work hard and exert yourself, often against the tide of conventional opinion, competition, and your own complacency, doubts and fears. When you PERFORM, you are using your skills and...
Book Summary: “Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?” by Louis Gerstner
We have been exploring employee engagement these last few months. The issue is that employee disengagement is increasing, and this is not a recent trend or one driven solely by the poor economy. Sarah Van of Raleigh Consulting Group informed me recently that more...
The Employee Engagement Crisis (Part 2)
Last month, we discussed the increasing disengagement of employees in the American workforce, some of the drivers, as well as the high cost of employee turnover. (read that article here) As further evidence of this issue, David Vogelpohl of Excellerate Solutions tells...
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