I found this recently in Forbes. It’s a question asked of Stephen Covey and it’s good. If you had to write The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People over again, would you change anything? Explain. I would not. The sequence of the habits is the important thing. To win a public victory, you first need [...]
You’ve probably heard of Data Mining which usually applies to using computers to go through masses of data to look for information or patterns that can be useful information or news. It’s likely you have lots of data that you can mine as well in your files that might be information you can use, subjects [...]
In a chat with a surgeon this past weekend I heard phrase in the title for the first time. It essentially suggests that when a surgeon is doing a tricky procedure after they cut open the patient but before doing the essential work they reduce the risk of surprise bleeding. They tie off all the [...]
I saw an interview the other day with two people who had played the “30 Days to Live” game. They asked themselves what they would do with only thirty healthy days to go and then did so. When I thought about it my first instincts were to re-do a couple of travel things I had [...]
I’ve been reading recently about Gary Hart who tried to be President in the 80′s. He did well but never got past the primaries. Anyway he came from pretty humble beginnings and got to the pinnacle of U.S. politics by, to paraphrase his words, opening doors and building walls. The way he described his rise [...]
I’ve learned in the past few years that we get addicted to things that provide random rewards. For example with golf and learning a musical instrument you don’t know what’s going to happen each time you try because there are so many variables. Randomly you’re successful and get addicted. It’s similar with gambling and young [...]
As a coach my job is to get my clients doing more of the right stuff and less of the wrong. We figure out what the right stuff is after we clarify goals. The right stuff is a list of the kinds of things a person will do to reach their goals. From that list [...]
