Time to Review a Couple of Always Relevant Blog Entries
It’s been a while since we have done any reviews, so here are two (below) for you to read or re-read: The first one is titled: The Importance of Your Mindset. It focuses on the determinative nature of...
View ArticleHiring Mistakes and Their Compounding Effects on Morale
To illustrate this problem, I am going to share a story that took place in a well known large company. I have made slight changes to the names of the people involved, but everything else in this story...
View ArticleMore Advice Regarding New Year’s Resolutions
The past four years I have written entries on why New Year’s resolutions fail and how to get better results. I highly suggest that you take a look at all of them before reading this article (or after...
View ArticlePerception Often Does Not Reflect Reality
A few days ago the University of Oregon played The Ohio State University in the championship game of the first four-team college football playoff. Had we continued to use the previous system, called...
View ArticleLeadership Issues
This is a topic I could probably write about every week for the rest of the year and still have plenty of material left to share. Whether it’s management in your company or a coach of your athletic...
View ArticleBeing Referred to as ‘Talented’ is Demeaning (part 6)
As I have touched on from the beginning of this series, I find it offensive whenever someone refers to an individual as talented or gifted. Doing so is dismissive of all the hard work they put into...
View ArticleWhen Good Ideas Go Bad
Have you ever read or heard about a new way of doing something that appears to be a much better way of doing it? Have you ever tried to implement the new way into your life or your work and had it end...
View ArticleThere’s More to Effective Visualization than Meets the Eye
If you were going to bake a cake from scratch, would you try and do it without the help of a recipe? Would you try to make it using just the ingredients you already have on hand? Or would you go out...
View ArticleGood Parenting Requires/Involves Great Leadership – Part 4
In my three previous entries on parenting I focused on the importance of modeling and teaching children patience and self-control, the necessity for parents to challenge their children and allow them...
View ArticleAmy Schumer is the Hottest Girl on Television
I recently had a few interesting conversations with some good friends about celebrity crushes. I told them I rarely ever had a celebrity crush, and a couple of the ones I did have, I ended up meeting...
View ArticleTime to Review a Couple of Always Relevant Blog Entries
It’s been a while since we have done any reviews, so here are two (below) for you to read or re-read: The first one is titled: Wisdom and Innovation Often Come from Unexpected Places. It focuses on how...
View ArticleDoes Being a Bit of an S.O.B. Help Football Coaches Win?
I recently found myself in a conversation on this topic with a few prominent college and professional football coaches. To be clear before continuing on, I used S.O.B. in my title to keep it as clean...
View ArticleLeadership Issues – Part 2
As I stated in a previous blog entry, whether it’s management in your company or a coach of your athletic team, misconceptions and misguided attempts to lead are everywhere. Poor leadership can kill an...
View ArticleSocial Influence Determines Most Decisions People Make
Believe it or not, social influence has more impact on your decision-making than your conscious mind does. We all like to think we are in control of all of our decisions. We have even become quite good...
View ArticleThe Private School – Ivy League Myth
How many of you think that your child will have a higher chance of being someone who changes the world for the better if they attend a highly regarded private school followed by an Ivy League school?...
View ArticleEven More Advice Regarding New Year’s Resolutions
For the past five years I have written entries on why New Year’s resolutions fail and how to get better results. I highly suggest that you take a look at all of them before reading this article (or...
View ArticleWhy We Believe in Superstitions
We have all had superstitions. To some, it can mean anything from wearing a lucky hat, shirt, dress, etc., to a ritual like bouncing the ball three times before each free throw in a basketball game, to...
View ArticleWhy Culture Matters
The definition of culture in the Merriam-Webster dictionary is: the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time. Although accurate, I find this definition lacking, as...
View ArticleBeing Referred to as ‘Talented’ is Demeaning (part 7) *
Throughout history we have believed that to reach the highest levels in any field, you had to start with an underlying talent, and combine it with a motivation to succeed. As a result, businesses,...
View ArticleCommon Mistakes in The NFL Draft
The NFL’s annual draft of collegiate players begins later today. A few years from now people will look back and find that many highly drafted players were not nearly as good as they were expected to...
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