Which book comes to your mind most often? Something you quote or use ideas from regularly?
For me, a top contender would be Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. (“Begin with the end in mind… Choose the important over the urgent… Sharpen the saw…”) I can hardly believe it came out in 1989.
Continue reading “Living Life in Crescendo”Are you wired to take the harder or easier path?
It’s an area of contradiction for me. I tend to assume that the more difficult route is the right one — my brain’s distortion of The Road Not Taken alongside an over-developed Protestant work ethic I suspect. Yet at the same time, I love helping my clients find their easier path to success. For instance, when I work on increasing a team’s Adaptability Quotient, I’ll often say, “We all have to adapt. Why not discover your easier, preferred route to doing so and take that path through the woods of uncertainty rather than hacking your way through the brush of an uncleared trail?”
Continue reading “Welcoming the path of least resistance”We know creativity increases with constraints.
So, what if one path to making wiser decisions faster is to tighten the screws?
And what if doing so were actually fun?
Continue reading “Personalized Creativity on a Deadline”I love how different scenes in a movie or sections of a book stand out to different people.
Continue reading “Be that gem”When people are willing to be early adopters, it signals curiosity to me.
Continue reading “Curiosity Exemplified”