My Inc.com article today, “I Wrote 70 Gratitude Emails. Here Are My Awesome Results” began I Wrote 70 Gratitude Emails. Here Are My Awesome Results Science shows gratitude improves your life. I expressed it and found out for myself. You can too. Research shows gratitude helps your brain, well-being, and business. I had an experience that helped develop gratitude, like a skill. The exercise was free, rewarding, and improved my[…] Keep reading →
My Inc.com article today, “Elon Musk and Alan Mulally: Help Me Avoid Flying for a Year!,” began Elon Musk and Alan Mulally: Help Me Avoid Flying for a Year! I vowed not to fly for a year to reduce emissions. Can two heads of car companies help make it happen? Marshall Goldsmith is making my life difficult. Elon Musk and Alan Mulally can help and you’ll benefit from it. I’ll[…] Keep reading →
My Inc.com article yesterday, “How This Bodybuilder With Cerebral Palsy Can Help You Reach Your Potential,” began How This Bodybuilder With Cerebral Palsy Can Help You Reach Your Potential Can his example lead you to achieve something you thought you couldn’t? Why are we here at Inc.com if not to be part of a community focused on improving ourselves, leading others, setting examples, and changing the world? And what are[…] Keep reading →
My second Inc.com piece from last Monday, “Marshall Goldsmith: How to Become More Than Just No. 1,” began Marshall Goldsmith: How to Become More Than Just No. 1 Faced with the challenge of nowhere to go but down, Marshall Goldsmith offers the world his wisdom, and keeps going up Successful leaders know how to keep leading. We can learn from them. Inc. has written about Marshall Goldsmith many times. He[…] Keep reading →
My Inc.com article from last Monday (sorry, I fell behind), “How to Pivot Like a Pro,” began How to Pivot Like a Pro Think you have a good idea but facing resistance? Here’s how to change it to a great idea your customers love and your competitors envy. Changing your business’s direction is hard, especially when you love your current plan. It could be the difference between customers loving you[…] Keep reading →
My Inc.com article today, “11 Reasons Why School Business Plan Competitions Should Die” begins 11 Reasons Why School Business Plan Competitions Should Die Who benefits when venture capitalists ‘give’ money away? Who loses? If the customer is valuable, who is the customer when a business plan competition sponsor pays its award? Whom did the contestant focus on–the long-term customer or the venture capitalist sponsor? Schools once didn’t teach entrepreneurship. Then[…] Keep reading →
My post on Inc.com today, “How Leaders Get Followers” begins How Leaders Get Followers Getting promoted or starting a venture so people get paid to do what you say doesn’t make them followers. Here’s what does. Most people think to become a leader, you just get promoted or start a venture until you have a team below you: the bigger the team, the more people reporting to you, the more[…] Keep reading →
My Inc.com article today, “How Not to Save New York City, or Your Home” begins How Not to Save New York City, or Your Home The New York Times and New York Magazine show how not to lead on the biggest issue of our time. It’s up to leaders to lead. This is a post about what leaders, entrepreneurs, and other Inc.com readers do best–to lead people to improve their[…] Keep reading →
My Inc.com story today, “These First-Graders Will Teach You to Make Your Team More Productive” begins These First-Graders Will Teach You to Make Your Team More Productive This master educator walking these first-graders through the iterative process of peer-learning will teach you Teams beat individuals in business, end of story. There are exceptions, but rarely, and you can tell when. People and teams who learn beat ones who stagnate, end[…] Keep reading →