12 Keys to Increasing Personal Productivity … While Adding More Balance to Your Life
Leadership Lessons ezine by Mark Sanborn
DetailsSpinning the Spin
Today a well-known baseball player under scrutiny for alleged steroid use (which he denies in the face of some substantial evidence) also denied beginning an affair with a well-know country western star when she was only 15 (which she did not confirm but rather said she could not deny). Said athlete admitted that he had…
DetailsThe Joy of Waking Up
I am blessed. I awoke this morning in my home, healthy and with food and water. 22,000+ victims of the cyclone in Myanmar did not wake up today. Tens of thousands more did wake up wondering if they could find food and water and perhaps contemplating if they’d ever have a home again. To say…
DetailsBeware of Brevity
Aristotle believed in the golden mean, the midway point between too little and too much of anything. Just as wordiness is too much, sometimes brevity can be too little. If you find yourself defending your brief communications, the clue phone is ringing for you. Recently a friend was justifiably incensed by something he read online.…
DetailsUnless Something Dramatic Happens
I’m on the phone with a friend who wants Darla and I to come to an open house for a home his company just built. We plan to do so but I finish our conversation by saying, “We’ll be there unless something dramatic happens.” I really didn’t need to add those words. I’m the kind…
DetailsGetting to Know John McCain
Today’s Wall Street Journal has an important editorial piece about John McCain I really encourage you to read for two reasons (click here). First, there are some powerful stories about McCain’s character that will give you insights into who he is that you probably haven’t and won’t see elsewhere. Second, there is a lesson to…
DetailsPersonal Political Security
My friend Bill is a successful entrepreneur in Southern California. While having lunch recently he commented that whatever happened at the upcoming elections and whoever was elected really didn’t matter to him. He went on to explain that while he was concerned about what was best for our country and that he planned to vote,…
DetailsDrive to Completion
Larry Bossidy’s book Execution was a bestseller. My friend Sam Giest just wrote a book called Execute…or Be Executed. Both books speak to the crucial need for leaders to create results. The road to Hades, as it is often said, is paved with good intentions. The road to success is paved with results. Nearly fifty…
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The best way to deal with jerks is not to be one. Gratefulness is a path through trials and disappointments. Mastery creates confidence. We make our decisions then our decisions make us. C.S. Lewis said the most important question isn’t “What do you think of God?” The most important question is “What does God think…
DetailsWhat Kind of Hope?
We hear much about our next president providing America hope…but what kind of hope. Lloyd Ogilvie said, “What we hope for determines the vitality of our lives. But the question is: When we have arrived at where we are going, where will we be; when we get what we want, what will we have; when…
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