What’s more important: knowledge, work habits or the way we interact with others? Recently, one of my clients was creating a project team. Several people volunteered, yet when they found out that Ms. So and So was going to be part of it, they quickly retracted their offers. The.
[Read More]Can you give a great presentation if you have a messy office? Can you be a fabulous parent with laundry strewn all over the house? On the one hand, it might seem like you’re too busy doing your “job” to worry about little details like filing or cleaning out.
[Read More]People are weird about love. Everybody wants to be loved, but nobody wants to talk about it. We’ll tell a stranger how much we love our iPod. Yet we find it difficult to look into the eyes of our parent, spouse or child and proclaim the same thing. One.
[Read More]People are weird about love. Everybody wants to be loved, but nobody wants to talk about it. We’ll tell a stranger how much we love our iPod. Yet we find it difficult to look into the eyes of our parent, spouse or child and proclaim the same thing. One.
[Read More]What do employees say and do when their boss isn’t watching? Organizations say they want to know what goes on behind the scenes. But more often than not, senior leaders, particularly those at the top of the corporate food chain, don’t spend enough time in the trenches to get an.
[Read More]“At a certain point it gets to be about me, right?” He was a seasoned professional who’d been in business for years, and when he asked me this question near the end of a workshop I was giving, I knew that he was struggling. In his way of thinking,.
[Read More]Bring up the topic of sales, and you’ll likely get eye rolls from people who believe that “selling” is all about high-pressure tactics, telemarketing calls at dinner, pushy, plaid-jacketed liars and smooth-talking, slick-haired hucksters peddling snake oil out of their trunks. In a Gallup annual honesty and ethics poll,.
[Read More]Be it business, politics or relationships, either/or thinking is the bane of human existence. It dumbs down pretty much everything. Whether it’s an interdepartmental turf war or an argument with your spouse about the best way to load a dishwasher, the moment we descend into an either/or, I’m-right-so-you-must-be-wrong mindset,.
[Read More]Corporate flunkies speak in tongues By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com What’s the difference between vision and mission, and does anybody even care? I’m all for getting everybody pointing in the right direction, but why do companies always seem to think that a bunch of fancy buzzwords etched into a bronze.
[Read More]Nurturing 2.0: Launching Ladies to the Top By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Is it better to give than to receive? When it comes to gifts and charity, it feels great to put others first. But in the dog-eat-dog world of business, most people believe, if you want to get ahead,.
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