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Embrace the Messy Part!
Messy is good. A recent article in The Wall Street Journal talks about leadership and creativity (one of my favorite topics, and the focus of my keynote program The Emmy Effect: How to Develop and Lead...
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What can a concert pianist teach us about business? Nothing much…just the difference between being an amateur and being a professional. The post Are You an Amateur or a Professional? appeared first on...
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How To Be Twice As Good As The Competition
Would you like to be twice as good as your competition? The Beatles knew the formula! The post How To Be Twice As Good As The Competition appeared first on The Executive Producer.
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What Does This Super Bowl Champ Say About Limitations?
By all rights, Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson shouldn’t even be a quarterback! Instead, he’s a Super Bowl Champion. Here’s why. The post What Does This Super Bowl Champ Say About Limitations?...
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3 Steps to Dealing with Weaknesses
In an earlier post I talked about why you should try to spend 80% of your time, energy, and resources focusing on your strengths. In other words, focusing on the stuff you do best. But what about the...
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What I Learned from Jay Leno
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I used to write monolog jokes for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. One day after the show I happened to be sitting with Jay (no doubt having pizza; with...
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What’s Your “Perfect Swing”?
What does award-winning performance mean to you? I mean specifically. In your business, in your work, what does award-winning performance look like, sound like, feel like? How do you recognize it in...
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Avoiding Work or Rewarding Work? How to Tell the Difference
Some time ago I wrote that a truly successful person wouldn’t take the afternoon off to go see a movie. A colleague of mine countered that that person might, if they were celebrating a personal or...
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For Smart People Only: Stop Being Lazy!
Smart people are lazy. (No, not all smart people. I understand that you are different. It’s the others.) Now, this can be a good thing, which is why Bill Gates once said, “I will always choose a lazy...
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The Power of Consistency
I shouldn’t be writing this. Really. If I had any sense, I wouldn’t be writing this. I wouldn’t be writing anything. Why? Because it’s late at night on Sunday, and I have an early flight tomorrow...
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Why Your Team Isn’t Buying What You’re Selling
Do you ever wonder why your team isn’t as excited about that bold, new project as you are? Have you ever been disappointed when your motivating pep talk (the one you practiced for hours) falls on deaf...
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Why Should Your Team Follow You?
In his book Start With Why, Simon Sinek contends that the foundational, underlying question you must answer in order for your business to thrive is “Why?” Why are you in business? Why are you called to...
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How Diversity Can Drive Your Team’s Innovation
Most teams that I work with claim that they would like to be more innovative. And all of them would like to see better bottom line results, such as growth in market share, and better client...
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Are You a Brilliant Original, or Merely a Copy?
Let’s start with a 2-part quiz: Question 1 — Which would you pay more for: an original Van Gogh, or a copy (even a very good copy) done by a third-year art student? Question 2 — Switching now to your...
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How Would You Respond to This Challenge?
It’s officially spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Typically, spring is a season associated with rebirth and renewal. It’s a chance to look at the world through fresh eyes. So today, let’s use spring...
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Are You Setting Your Future Leaders Up For Failure?
You’ve got a star performer in your organization. Let’s call her Amanda. Amanda is brilliant at her job. She’s so good, in fact, that you begin to think, “Amanda is fantastic! Imagine how valuable...
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Are You Killing the Creativity in Your Business?
“Creativity” is one of those things (like its close cousin “risk-taking”) that nearly all leaders love to hail, praise, and rhapsodize over. So why is actual creativity in the workplace so rare? It’s...
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The Real Secret to Coming Up With a Great Idea
Oh, to be the person who comes up with “the great idea”! Solar power! The artificial heart! Potato chips that stack in a can! Great ideas are everywhere, and yet they always seem to be the brainchild...
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Are You Lying About Trusting Your Team?
Do you trust your team? I don’t mean “trust” in the sense of, “I trust that my team members won’t sell our company secrets to the Russians,” (although that might be kind of important, depending on your...
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