How To Accomplish More With Your Team

People Do What’s Inspected Not What’s Expected You should not only just expect greatness from those around you, but also develop a process for inspecting that achievement.  Organizations and people that don’t have an inspection system don’t have high levels of execution.  Inspection is the power of accountability.  I know that I tend to do […]

If You Want To Accomplish More, Do Less

The Less You Do, the More You Accomplish It’s a dirty little leadership secret, but it’s true, the less you do the more you accomplish   Gaining clarity on what brings the most value to your organization and focusing energy there, accelerates growth.  When you’re young, you try to prove yourself by doing everything.  This was true […]

How You Can Beat Procrastination

What Stops You From Succeeding? I think this is something that plagues all of us.  Because of procrastination plans go astray, dreams go unfulfilled and time is wasted.   One of my biggest challenges is putting things off until the last moment.  There are things that are unpleasant for me that I simply must do!  How […]

Two Myths About Change

Pay The Price Change is a word that most people don’t like to hear.  It’s not that people don’t want things to change, they don’t want to change!  We want change without the pain of personal adjustment.  I think we all want improvement.  Who goes to the store to buy an old refrigerator?  No one!  When […]

How To Put Your Strengths To Work

Learn More To Earn More I’ve made it a study to discover what are the Thinking Style of Super Achievers because the first step in doing what successful people do, is to think how they think.  One success habit I see is successful people consume information.  They go to the experts in order to learn more, […]

How to Love Your Job

Loving Your Job Driving to the airport on Monday morning I was listening to an audiobook by Zig Ziglar.  It was a great motivational way to start the morning!  When you get a good start to the day it’s amazing how well the rest of your day tends to go.  This is Why Focus is […]

How to Take Your Passion to the Next Level

Your Passion Creates Your Destination Passion is so powerful because it’s intrinsic.  Many times when leaders try to motivate people they do it extrinsically, “more money” is the classic example.  The problem is, this hardly every works.  Try connecting with your why and the how-to will appear.  Your why is attached to your passion, It’s […]

Incorporating the 3 Vital Concepts of Top Performing Organizations

I wanted to give everyone a preview of my new webinar series, “Strategy Execution”.  In researching high-performance organizations I’ve found 3 attributes: Top Performance Organizations are Learning Learning is the pathway to continual mastery in any endeavor.  It’s only through learning that we continually re-create ourselves.  A learning organization is one that continually expands it’s […]

How to Stay Motivated

I just finished Daniel Pink’s new book, Drive.  It’s the book I wish I would have written.  In addition to Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose (if you don’t understand what I’m talking about, go get the book!) I’d like to weigh in with my 3 techniques I’ve used to motivate myself!  Change Your Focus How I focus […]

Self-Coaching

In our research on leadership, we’ve discovered that the great leaders have the sensory acuity to self coach themselves.

Discovering the Hidden Key to Motivation

Do you know your Why? Great achievers know WHY they are here!  I’m convinced you have the know the WHY before you know the what.  Hidden inside of your WHY is the secret to passion and energy.  WHY are you doing what you’re doing? Motivation is a by-product of a clear WHY.  If you’re lacking […]