If you had to choose a country that would resist gay marriage, Ireland would be a safe choice. At least in the western and northern hemispheres. Yet somehow, in 2015 a national referendum legalizing gay marriage miraculously passed. As S ...
If You Wanna Go Fast, You Gotta Start Slow: How to Connect from the Get-Go
The more people see you as a real person, the more likely they are to follow you. And yet, a common mistake that new managers and team leaders make is to use a classic command and control leadership style. For anyone who's experienced this style first ...
The HOW Is More Important Than The WHAT
Standing at the foot of Mt. Everest. No water. No oxygen. No proper equipment to speak of. Nevertheless, must get to the top. And fast. Teaching and travelling around Asia in the second half of the 1990s, this is exactly how I felt on my return to t ...
The Cult of Happiness: 10 Simple Ideas to Stop the Circus and Redirect the Love
“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 ...
How To Successfully Implement Change The Human Way (part 3): Practice SMART Communication
FUN FACTOR. “…as psychological researchers discover more about how the human brain works, we’re gaining insights into exactly how to crank up the enjoyment factor…” - Laura Vanderkam, Fast Company. "THE SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN WAY TO HAVE THE BEST VAC ...
How to Implement Change the Human Way (part 1): Create Vision to Engage
COLD HARD FACT. Do you recognize this picture? Change Initiative fails* External experts brought in to determine "what happened and what happens next". Colossal waste of resources for everyone (time, energy, money). If you’d like to change t ...
How to Say What You Do with Impact: The Human Elevator Pitch
The Perfect Elevator Pitch...6 Tips for Perfecting Your Elevator Pitch...The Key Components of a Powerful Elevator Pitch... You know the advice. You know it’s in your best interest to have a short "pitch" ready in case you bump into someone with influ ...
6 Powerful Behaviors to Facilitate Positive Change
Change comes about as a result of accepting what is, rather than a striving to be different (Beisser 1970). This was the key idea I presented in the LinkedIn Pulse article, "3 Powerful Steps to Embrace the Change Paradox". For any team leader or man ...