"I’ve got so much to do…I don’t even know where to start." “I’m so busy my head is spinning!” Have you ever made a statement like this? According to Drake Baer in “Busy Is The New Lazy”, when people say they are busy what they really mean is: “I’m importa ...
It is crucial that the feedback you get is valuable – especially feedback about your Blind Spots (things about you known to others, but not to you). This is a big challenge as this information can be hard to come by, especially from your team and direct reports. However, for you to grow and develop yourself, it’s critical that you get access ASAP. Success in achieving your goals depends on it – especially the ones that really stretch you. This article aims to help you tackle this challenge.
Je ne parle pas anglais – the short bark I got every time I asked a train attendant for help. I’d flown into Paris a week earlier and even managed to find my way into the city center, despite a city-wide transport strike. But this was a whole new animal ...
What is really going on? Without a doubt, life can be crazy. At times it feels like the walls are closing in around you - work is out of control and your personal commitments are exploding... However, could there be something else going on with you? ...
“I believe every artist had someone who told them they were dirt and someone who told them that they were the second coming of the baby Jesus, and they believed ‘em both". – Bruce Springsteen BBC Radio 4 Springsteen’s observation got me thinking… ...
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” – Robert Levine Do you ever feel like time is slipping out of your control? And as a result, you have to make the best possible use of your limited time? Or that working more efficientl ...
“The floggings will continue until morale improves.” Can companies turn happiness into a management tool to be measured or a skill to be improved? As the joke illustrates, I don’t think so. In “Against Happiness”, the economist Schumpeter shines ...
"Globalization on Steroids + Hyper Industry Disruption + Job Uncertainty & Constant Change" = Reality for most professionals circa 2018. So does cultural awareness still have an “extremely important impact on Change” as reported in Prosci’s ...
"People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies" (StrengthsFinder 2.0). "What's right with people?" - this the question Gallup scientists set out to ans ...
There’s a BIG MISMATCH between how you think you’re viewed by others and how they actually see you. In fact, you really have no idea how you come across. “What matters about you, to someone else, is whatever has the most meaning for them – not for you,” ...
