Are you getting the most from the people around you. I think a great opportunity we each should be looking for is the chance to harvest learning, experience and ideas from others. And importantly to come up with new solutions when challenged with tough questions. I came to this notion when I read the following [...]
In team building workshops I often hear complaints about people who “focus on the problem rather than the solution”. I’m pretty sure most of those people don’t have much of a clue of how to solve the problems they’re focused on. When you’re faced with a problem and you don’t know where to start looking [...]
I’m reading Tony Blair’s lengthy autobiography about his time as Prime Minister of the U.K. He has a lots of good thoughts on leadership and other things. Here’s one I liked. “I have a few rules about people I work with really closely. Work comes first. No blame culture. Fun, in its proper place, is [...]
Usually more creativity is better than less. The kinds of people that deflate creativity in meetings include; naysayers who know exactly what’s wrong with any idea; low energy people who just sit there glumly and people who can’t seem to focus and are constantly going on a tangent. Good solution is to keep these people [...]
I think there are three levels of performance among marathon runners. The professionals who do the very best are elite athletes. They train both mind and body to work optimally and consciously. They succeed via conscious competence. The very best amateurs probably compete adding some degree of ‘flow’ to their very good conscious competence but [...]
I learned about this terrific idea recently. As part of hiring people and then through the performance review process create a list of ways that they like to be motivated. The biggest part of this is asking them from time about what motivates them. Then when the time comes you’ll know what should work. This [...]
Whether you define ‘win’ as ‘win/win’ or ‘I win’ every meeting you attend ought to be a successful use of your time and the time of the other participants. Here are some ideas to consider. 1. Go into every meeting with an objective. At the very least, at the end of the meeting you should [...]
