
Career sound bite yesterday:
You go first.
One of the biggest, most overlooked opportunities in business?
Celebrating the success of others.
We know this, yet secretly want everyone else to pay us a compliment first.
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Career sound bite yesterday:
You go first.
One of the biggest, most overlooked opportunities in business?
Celebrating the success of others.
We know this, yet secretly want everyone else to pay us a compliment first.
Next Blog

What’s the point of a consultant?
To do the work for you?
To inspire you to do the work yourself?
There appears to be a subtle yet compelling difference between a consultant and a contractor?
There’s a difference between a personal trainer and an Olympic athlete.
One knows what needs to be done. The other actually does it.
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The echo of jeffnoel.org …
The insidious decline of our positive dreams and our habits.
The fear.
The stress.
The pressure.
The competition.
The lure of more, better, faster.
And having to please people you don’t trust.
For decades, the treadmill of falling into place and waiting for retirement to start living.
One final click on Blog (below) for the ‘put up or keep quiet’ question…
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What does courage look like in a leader?
Hard to say, because, ironically, we talk about it all the time, but if pressed to answer, “When was the last time your spine was stiffened?”, we would come up short.
The challenge with corporate leadership, is that humans are involved. We are perfectly imperfect. Flawed. Broken yet beautiful.
This video is long (7:59). About 4:30 into it, your spine will be stiffened. If it doesn’t, well…
The corporate world actually shuns audacity. It’s dangerous. It could be misinterpreted.
So can cowardice conformity.
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Everybody wants to be somebody and that creates tension here – the workplace.
I’ve found that we get more when we need less.
Less approval. Less money. Less status.
The only way to know this is to give up much.
And to do it without giving up who we are.
Most of you know, the writing here is never theory. It’s experience and insights gained from a 54-year long journey, including nearly 30 at one of the world’s most admired companies.
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