System & Soul Blogs
You have six basic emotions, but most people don’t even know how to express one.
Fear
Anger
Joy
Sadness
Disgust
Surprise
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My long-time business coach, John Richie, says, "Your culture is what you tolerate at the fringes."
The fringes are anything you put up with...
There are 8 things I need to do 4x a year that end up making everything easier over time.
They keep my team out of ruts. They keep us...
Everyone can cut 2-4 hours of low-value work out of their week.
But most would say that’s impossible.
The problem?
...IIt's hard (maybe impossible) to avoid stale thinking.
We have 100's of problems to solve and ideas spinning in our heads any given day.
We have to...
Remember that arcade game, Pole Position?
Or, for my Millennials... Mario Kart?
The way to win was to steer clear of obstacles and it often...
Sometimes, in order answer big questions about the future, we have to time travel.
I start with 2 questions when I talk with leadership teams about...
I have hard news for you.
It's been my experience that when I meet with and listen to business owners and their leadership teams, the...
“We tend to overestimate what can be done in the near future and grossly underestimate what can be done in the distant...
Once I started thinking about long-term goals in this way, it made them clearer and helped me uncover the reality of what it would take to...
My business coach John Richie recently shared some observations with me on what each decade of life and work represents as we...
Ever been working with your team through an idea or obstacle, but you get lost in what you're really trying to solve?
Often we get wrapped up...