Recap Your Year
The media is busy recapping 2011, but you can benefit from recapping your past year.
15 Things Emerging Leaders Need to Know
If you are an emerging leader or want to develop emerging leaders in your organization, here are 15 key concepts you need to know distilled from my work in leadership development for the past 25 years.
Understanding and Using Commitment to Achieve Remarkable Performance
Remarkable performance doesn’t happen by accident. Whether delivered individually or organizationally, it is always preceded by commitment. Think about the connection between commitment and performance this way: •Commitment is the price you are willing to pay to get remarkable results. •Performance reveals the price you have paid. Consider: •A remarkable performance reveals how highly you…
The Power of Practice: Part 3
Don’t be discouraged by the ten-year rule. Ten years seems like a long time until you realize that it can be achieved minute by minute and day by day. When it comes to practice use the ten-minutes/ten-years tactic: Practice deliberately every day to become remarkable, but understand that it will probably take ten years to…
The Power of Practice: Part 2
Deliberate Practice What the Eagles refer to as the circle of fear, modern performance researchers call “deliberate practice.” If you think that term suggests that we’re talking about something beyond normal practice, you’re right. Researcher and senior editor at Fortune magazine, Geoffrey Colvin, differentiates between practice and deliberate practice this way: “Simply hitting a bucket…
The Power of Practice: Part 1
Practice won’t make you perfect, but it will make you better. They call it “the circle of fear”—”they” being the Eagles, one of the top five best-selling musical acts in American history. In fact, their album “Greatest Hits 1971-1975,” is the best-selling album in American history. For years their audience has continued to want more…
The Professional Passionate Definition
A true professional is not defined by the job he or she does, but how he or she does the job. When I first met Fred the postman (the real-life Fred Shea who I wrote about in my book The Fred Factor), I realized that he made delivering the mail both art and science; Fred…
An Army Of Lions
Philip of Macdonia, the father of Alexander the Great, said, “An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a dear.” That may be true, but I’ve come to believe that Philip missed the bigger point: An army of lions led by a lion…
You Don’t Need a Title to Be a Leader: Ask These Women who Just Won the Nobel Prize
This week, the 2011 Nobel Prize for Peace was conferred on two women who changed the world around them for the better without ever having the benefit of a title. They both grew up in very modest circumstances in societies that don’t traditionally allow women to have important titles or positions of power. They didn’t…
Guest Blog: 15 Incredible Businessmen Who Refused to Retire
This post is compliments of OnlineMBA.com. For many who reach the top echelons of business, retirement is a time to enjoy the spoils of a life well lived and years of hard work and perseverance. Others, however, take a different approach. For every businessman anticipating retirement, there’s also one who dreams of working until old age,…
