Finishing Well
25 years ago I ran my first Marine Corps Marathon and last week I ran my final with the Marine Corps 50k. The conditions were challenging (rain/downpours/wind and then temperatures…
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Positively Delivering Constructive Feedback
We are approaching the season of performance reviews and feedback. If you manage people, you will likely be called upon to evaluate those you lead. How will you deliver feedback?…
Leadership Agility: A Key Component to Career Success
Leadership Agility is a hot concept we have been seeing, hearing and reading more about over the past several years. In today’s complex, unpredictable, volatile and fast-paced business environment leaders…
Tell Your Story in the Fourth Quarter and Beyond
As the fourth quarter comes to a close all of us have a measure of excitement, angst and transition in our work lives. Year-end sales goals, projects, performance reviews, promotions…
Building Character, Spotlighting Integrity
Character and Integrity rarely grow when everything in life goes our way. Instead it is our response to life’s challenges that forges our character and spotlights our integrity. I used…
Realistically Positive: Growth Isn’t Always Linear
As I drove on a stretch of open road the other day listening to Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer,” I thought about where I am going in my career…
The Payoff Principle: A Lifetime of Payoffs
Imagine yourself creating a lifetime of payoffs: happiness, success, significance – a life of abundance, both personally and professionally. We all want it! We all want to become producers. We…
The Payoff Principle: On Process
In previous articles – The Payoff Principle: Producers Wanted!, The Payoff Principle: On Purpose, and The Payoff Principle: On Passion, I’ve looked at the power of purpose (the direction you…
The Payoff Principle: On Passion
Don’t miss previous parts of this series – The Payoff Principle: Producers Wanted! and The Payoff Principle: On Purpose Once you’ve decided to live a life of purpose and on purpose,…
The Payoff Principle: On Purpose
Don’t miss part one of this series – The Payoff Principle: Producers Wanted! The book, The Payoff Principle by Dr. Alan Zimmerman, begins with the power of purpose (Purpose +…