If your mind is in prison, your hands may act out…
Be bold! Be creative! Be a visionary who dreams about floating vehicles, space exploration and colonizing other planets. “Be like Elon Musk – but know when to turn it down a notch. So maybe don’t tweet about your stock, no matter how much you feel like bragging.” I keep hearing this from people, and then others say: “What a ridiculous piece of fake news, he is a great guy who makes one little mistake and everyone is all over him.” I don’t want to take sides, but it’s interesting to see how quickly people can fall into the camps of believers and non-believers. Those who own a Tesla, or appreciate Musk’s higher purpose of trying to create a more sustainable planet, are relentless in their appreciation of this great man. Those who are suspicious of his motivations in the first place, or doubt the effectiveness of electric batteries, see their skepticism and suspicion justified in what happened to him. “See, I told you, this guy is an egomaniac and has no integrity.”
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Building dynasties from the inside out - the Saban Way
Saban recognizes that training the “entire” individual produces a cohesive organism propelled toward exceptionalism. In your organization how many ‘trainings’ are sponsored by HR as one off events, or as one - or two- day information download-type programs?
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Team building is BS – Individual and team Purpose is the key
I had one my best team buildings with the management team of my company many years ago. We went rafting - it was amazing. Beautiful nature and great company. It was also one of the most ineffective leadership teams I have ever been part of. Nothing changed when we came back.
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Native Americans can teach us how to create the best teams
It has been my tradition for the last 15 years – whenever engaged as a leader in a team dynamic focused on generative change – to call forth and intermittently employ the magical attributes of the “Talking Circle”.
My initial exposure to this ancient tradition was over 20 years ago, during a period under the tutelage of a Native American man and his wife up in the Catskill Mountains in New York.
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Forget Higher Purpose!
You can forget your Higher Purpose if you are not ready to walk the talk. Just think about it… a very touching paradigm shift has started to transpire in recent years: organizations have finally started to embrace the concept of a higher purpose.
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What will you do today to rethink and encourage creativity?
Employees feel that the leadership doesn’t support or encourage people to come up with creative ideas. So what are you going to do to eliminate the discrepancy between what you want and how your employees feel?
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If your top talent is leaving - your strategy is a waste of time...
What is your biggest concern for the coming years as a manager or executive? Global recession? Climate change? Political instability? Or rather, developing ‘Next Gen’ leaders and attracting and retaining top talent? If it is the latter, you’re definitely not alone as you fall into that 64 or 60 per cent of leaders, respectively, who when surveyed in the Global Leadership Forecast 2018, said that their biggest concerns for the future were developing effective leaders and attracting and keeping them so that they can successfully tackle the countless challenges ahead.
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Are You Expressing Your Point of View When You Talk?
This article was originally published on election morning, November 8, 2016 by a leading German daily newspaper, Die Welt. Prophetically, they chose to change the original title "Clinton vs. Trump: A Case Study in Persuasion” to "Trump will win - he has a better voice."
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Articles we love (3): Do you sound like the person you think you are?
Do you rejoice or cringe when you hear your own voice? Chances are, you do the latter. Most of us do. Have you ever wondered why? The reasons go beyond the common explanation that our recorded voice sounds more high-pitched than the one we hear ‘through our bones’.
It’s not only sounding more high-pitched than we expect that makes us flinch with frustration and disappointment when we hear our own recorded voice, but also the realization that the way we sound does not match our internal image of ourselves and the image we’d like to project to others.
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Articles we love (2): Create a Purpose Beyond Corporate BS to Do More and Do Better
Your organization has a mission statement and a goal and you know how to create economic value. You use training, incentives and enhanced managerial oversight to boost your employees’ performance that might lead to higher earnings. But is that enough?
Do you know that creating an authentic purpose for your company and weaving it through all aspects of company life will boost not only the performance and commitment of your employees, but your financial performance as well? If you have an authentic purpose, the personal and the common good become one, your employees’ engagement levels soar, and your organization will shift smoothly into real transformation: you will do more and you will do it better.
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The Power of Purpose in Sales
“Sell like hell” was our tagline when I was in B2B sales, to keep us running at peak performance. That was what my boss told me, what I told myself and the members of my team. Did it work? Not for everyone. In fact, for most people it didn’t work at all. Since then, I have trained thousands of salespeople as a sales coach and trainer. At one of the team coaching sessions, when I was with the sales leaders, they asked me what the single common trait among all successful salespeople was, if there was one.
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Articles we love (1): Can you spot a silent organization killer?
A silent organization killer is like an emotionally absent parent who causes developmental trauma to the ones they’re supposed to look after by not showing up properly. It is also hard to identify them, and even competent executives can let their organizations slowly waste away by not doing anything about these absentees who don’t make the effort to show up and lead properly.
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