Three ways to make your emotions allies of your success

Do a quick replay of some of your life and work highlights from last week. Let your mind go back to different days and remember a few events. As you remember, ask this question:   During the events of the past week, did my emotions support or derail my effectiveness?   It's likely that, for [...]

Three ways to make your emotions allies of your success2016-05-23T06:40:52-04:00

Do you have attitudinal halitosis?

How's your physical breath? Unfortunately, if you really want to know, you have to ask some brave soul close enough to have an opinion. If there's no one willing to venture near enough, that might also be a clue.   The sad reality is that other people usually know we have bad breath before we [...]

Do you have attitudinal halitosis?2016-05-18T09:59:32-04:00

How to Not Suck at Delivering Important Messages: The Pivot

Remember the game, Telephone? A circle of people--one by one--whisper a word or phrase to each other until the last person utters the phrase out loud so the group can see if/how it has changed. It's amusing to see what happens to the phrase by the time it's announced.   It's one thing to keep [...]

How to Not Suck at Delivering Important Messages: The Pivot2016-05-16T09:04:49-04:00