Sometimes people ask me when I “have time to come up with so many new ideas?”
I wonder if they think I just sit at my desk and think. I don’t.
Thinking is work, yes, but most of my ideas come when I am “in delivery” — in front of a room of people, speaking or facilitating. I test them in real time and see which ones land.
Continue reading “Adjust the Bullseye”Think of a presentation you’ve heard that has really stuck with you.
Are there many? Likely not.
I heard one this week, by Sarah Owen of Collaboratory, that I can’t stop thinking about, so I thought I’d tell you about it.
Continue reading “Thanks, Sarah!”Sometimes making a wiser decision faster requires slowing down. Good ideas or big transitions often take time to germinate or incubate, and we are wise to let them.
Continue reading “In praise of long-term overnight success”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”