Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Most people really want to do their best. Probably a remnant of our basic caveman ancestry to figure out how to stay alive.
But the fear of being eaten is long gone, and we drift, unintentionally, toward the abyss of going through the motions.
I often wonder if the plank others see in my eye is as big as the one I see in theirs.
Does your career, and more importantly, your leadership style, have a check engine light?
What are you working on that will make a difference in how others perceive you?
What are you working on that, unknowingly, doesn’t matter at all?
How do we tell the difference?
Excellence is a habit, not something we stumble upon.
The road to excellence has no finish line.
This is the main reason people give up.
Or maybe it’s the fear of success.
What do you think is the main reason people live with discontent in the workplace?
Like I said yesterday, maybe it’s time for a meeting.
“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time.”
– Herbert Bayard Swope
Trees near the Atlantic Ocean are under constant stress from the wind. And over time, they are shaped with a westerly lean. While they survive, they are indeed changed forever.
And quite possibly, they are happier and more courageous than “normal” trees. Only the trees know for sure.
What have the winds of society done to your attitude?
Made you stronger and more resilient?
Or, made you so fearful, you aren’t even conscious of it?
Time for a meeting?
Leaders, ask yourself a very simple question.
If your people could vote whether or not to keep you as their leader, would they?