How to Make Good Choices Automatically
Put Positive Habits to Work for You A habit is any rote action you take based on a stimulus and leading to a reward. For example, when the alarm clock goes off, you get out [...]
The Simplest Thing You Can Do to Improve Your Life
How Choosing Joy Changes You from the Inside Out Positive thinking people choose an attitude of joy. They are eager for every day, and make the most of it—whether it turns out as they’d planned [...]
The Rule of the Few
How to Identify the Cadre of Effective Leaders in Your Organization It’s tempting to believe that the larger an organization grows, the larger the pool of vital leaders. While it’s true that the number of [...]
Good Safeguards Make Effective Leaders
5 Simple Ways to Protect Your Integrity Any leader can bounce back from a tactical failure. Missing one quarter’s sales projections or botching a single project does not spell the end of a career. You [...]
Eliminating Anger from Your Leadership
4 Signs You’re an Angry Leader, and 4 Ways to Change Anger is the secret weapon some leaders use to fuel themselves and motivate others. And it works—to a degree. Like a shot of nitrous [...]
Discovering the Leader within You
Three Characteristics of a Leader’s Heart Leadership is an attitude. Sure, some people have the skills that contribute to success in leadership. But I’m convinced that most leaders, especially the great ones, are those who [...]
What Your Team Needs Most from Its Leader
Why Character Trumps Vision, Passion, and Strategy Vision, passion, and strategy are buzz words among leaders. For years we’ve been drilled on the importance of each one. Vision sets the destination. It’s the answer to [...]
How to Look on the Bright Side of Anything
Four Ways to Inject More Laughter into Your Life Being sad, morose, melancholy, or moody won’t help you meet goals or experience personal grown. However, laughter can. Besides being downright fun, laughter has health benefits. [...]
7 Bad Habits That Squeeze the Life from Your Day
Every day you head to the office believing that “this will be the day” you break through the fog and really pump out the work. Today I’ll tackle that big project, you tell yourself. You’re [...]
5 Ways to Stay Ahead of the Knowledge Curve in Your Field
There’s a great story about Franklin D. Roosevelt visiting Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes on his 92nd birthday. The great jurist was in failing health, and, so the story goes, was reading a Greek language grammar [...]