Personal & Professional Development Archives - Page 185 of 244

irunurun.com

You set goals with one real purpose – to reach them, don’t you? And if your experience is like mine, one reason we don’t reach goals is because we don’t turn the goal into a plan, with specific actions taken on a regular basis. And even if we identify the actions (which puts far ahead

The Final Four Thoughts on Learning

Normally on Friday, I share a quotation; then provide questions to ponder, action steps and my thoughts about that quotation. Not today. Today, we acknowledge what many Americans are thinking about and will be watching tomorrow – the men’s NCAA Final Four. There are four teams remaining before a champion is crowned. Two games tomorrow

The Truth About Your Time

I spend many of my days with leaders and employees from all over. Of all of the conversations we have, or of all of the side conversations I hear, one topic is most universal. Time. Or more specifically, that they don’t have enough of it. I get that people feel that they have lots to

How Leadership Is Like Beer

I caught myself humming a tune from my past the other day. It’s an old Tom T. Hall song titled “I Like Beer.” Just to give you a flavor, here is the second half of the chorus . . . “Whiskey’s too rough, champagne costs too much, and vodka put my mouth in gear. This

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

Today’s Resource Recommendation is Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler. Read the subtitle again, outloud. The future is better than you think. Yes, the world has big problems: famine, water quality and quantity, population growth, disease, and disappearing energy resources. And this book says that the future

Change vs. Consistency

This is the 700th blog post on this blog, and because I blogged previously here, this is really my 1532nd post since March of 2004. This fact got me thinking about consistency, and led me to today’s quotation. “But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.” – Ron D. Burton, lawyer, businessman,

It’s Never Too Late to Catch Up

I’m on vacation this week with my family in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our day yesterday included lunch with our accountant and his wife. He became my accountant nearly 20 years ago after I got to know him through his wife, with whom I had worked. We also had dinner with people who

Finding a Story for a Specific Communication Purpose

Tom had a major presentation coming up in less than a week, and he was concerned. This presentation was important not only for his team and his company, but also for his career. He knew that if he did well it would make all the difference . . . for everyone. And if it bombed,

Business at the Speed of Now

This week’s Resource Recommendation is Business at the Speed of Now by John M. Bernard. I can’t think of a businessperson or leader who wouldn’t be interested in increasing the speed of their operations, which makes the title of this book very appealing. The book, as promised, is focused around the concept of creating greater speed

Finding a Sense of Wonder

Often we look at kids and wish we could recapture some of that magic of childhood. One of the many things that make children magical is that complete willingness to have a sense of wonder. I’m a big fan of wonder, so much so that I wrote a chapter about it in my book Vantagepoints

Page [tcb_pagination_current_page] of [tcb_pagination_total_pages]

First

Last