Monthly Archives: January 2014

Four reasons to see your colleagues as people first and places on organization charts second

on January 24, 2014 in Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Tips

Do you see your colleagues more as people or do you work and relate with them more based on their place on the organization chart? Over and over clients come to me with similar perspectives and challenges. Often they see their managers as people to please, whom they want to learn about but never do because they don’t feel it their place to get to know him or her… as[…] Keep reading →

Different perspectives

on January 23, 2014 in Art, Awareness, Nature

Fable The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel; And the former called the latter “Little Prig.” Bun replied, “You are doubtless very big; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I’m not as large as you, You are not so small as I, And not[…] Keep reading →

The top sign of a successful seminar series?

on January 22, 2014 in Leadership

At the leadership seminar I led in Singapore I remember hearing attendees making job offers to each other. The one in Shanghai led to a group of former strangers forming that continued to meet to follow up the seminar work for months. I haven’t checked recently but they might still be meeting. But Saturdays’ seminar outdid them by far. An attendee approached me at the end while I was giving[…] Keep reading →

Thank you, attendees and organizers!

on January 21, 2014 in Education, Leadership

I want to thank all the seminar attendees and organizers for a fantastic experience at Saturday’s seminar “How to Lead People So They Want You to Lead Them Again.” I had given that seminar several times before, but this was my first with fifty people in a room at capacity. Everyone seemed attentive, genuinely interested, and open to experimenting. I only know other people’s perspectives what they tell me, but[…] Keep reading →

More inspiration from Martin Luther King, especially if you haven’t achieved much yet

on January 20, 2014 in Blog, Education, Freedom, Leadership

Perhaps the best honor one person can give another is to understand them and continue their legacy. I’m writing today’s post to suggest you can do that with Martin Luther King more than you think. Many people believe Einstein got bad grades, but I understand he didn’t. Martin Luther King, Jr got bad grades. He started graduate school at a school near Philadelphia called Crozer. Note among his grades —[…] Keep reading →

Top 16 tips for starting habits you want and stopping habits you don’t

on January 19, 2014 in Awareness, Tips

[This post is part of a series on Cold Showers. If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view that series, where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] Years ago I tended to have unintentional habits that I did without thinking about them and they didn’t improve my life much. Now they’re mostly ones I intentionally adopted because I knew they[…] Keep reading →

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