As it turns out we human beings are creatures of meaning. We assign meaning to everything and anything. Why when we find ourselves in a place of precariousness in our life, career or business, we get stuck if we cannot seem to unravel the meaning or what’s happening. According to Nietzsche, “He who has a […]
“Good is the enemy of great.” –Jim Collins The chasm between good and great is a marginal one. Only you can decipher what that is for you relative to who you are now and who you want to become. After all, it’s your life and only you know deep down why the gulf exists or […]
“What Human Beings Can Be, They Must Be” –Abraham Maslow Who did you set out to become in 2019? By becoming I mean what goals did you set out to reach and how did that turn out for you? I confess, I didn’t get to all my intentioned goals in 2019, one of them […]
Are You a Failure Tolerant Leader? “I didn’t get consumed by losses,” said the legendary NFL coach Don Shula, “and I didn’t get overwhelmed by successes.” Life’s silver linings come from all sort of places and experiences if we are willing to quiet our minds to listen and behold them. For to come alive is […]
“You cannot get to courage without walking through vulnerability.” Brené Brown Why is vulnerability so heard? Well because we don’t like to fail or experience pain. We often regard failure as an unexpected outcome contrary to what we expected. Clearly, failure causes or leads us to experience pain or simply put, when we fail, we […]
Saying thank you is one of the first phrases we teach our toddlers to say to others. It’s expresses one’s gratitude and feelings of appreciation towards another, and I might add, these two words do have some glorious power to them. Do you recall a time when you went out of your way to help […]
Creating a unifying vision is critical to furthering any initiative or championing any cause. Your ability to rally others around a common goal depends largely on whether your vision is simple, audacious, compelling and inspirational enough. Most leaders are thought to be visionaries because they seem to have the uncanny ability to unite others behind […]
Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize performance. Its more about helping people to learn than to teaching them.” –John Whitemore, In California Performance. Coaching is a process that seeks to help you improve your performance, and focus on the “here and now” rather than focus on the unknowable future—and in so doing move […]
Business is like life: its a series of risks taking endeavors with less knowns and a myriads of unknowns. Gaining clarity on what, why, who, when, where and how then becomes the most important thing you can do to mitigate your risks. Decision is the means by which we arrive to good risk taking ventures. […]
Where there is a Promise there is Purpose. Simply put, promise underscores purpose. Otherwise, what is the point of making a promise if your intentions are unknown, right? Your perseverance in good, the bad, the ugly and the in betweens seasons of your life, career and business points to how well you qualify to receive […]