by Jonathan | Aug 9, 2019 | Leadership
Tony Robbins says that you never get what you want, you only get what you tolerate. The word “tolerate” has a particular connotation that has caused me to miss the point for a few years. When I phrased it this way, “we get our standards”...
by Jonathan | Aug 8, 2019 | Leadership
Getting somebody on your team to open up to you means you are doing it right. If you have a team member who is sharing their life goals with you–and those goals clearly can’t be achieved by working on your team forever–then you are doing it right. If...
by Jonathan | Aug 6, 2019 | Leadership
The old joke after reading a fortune cookie fortune out loud is to add “between the sheets” to the end of whatever it says. “You will make someone very happy.” (Between the sheets.) The next time you hear somebody at work complaining about...
by Jonathan | Aug 5, 2019 | Leadership
It’s summer in the US. I live on the tee box of a local golf course. It’s been busy. The tee box for any hole is where golfers start. The goal, for the unfamiliar, is to get the ball from the tee box to the hole with the fewest possible hits. For any...
by Jonathan | Aug 2, 2019 | Leadership
This week the schedule gods blessed me with a few days that had absolutely no meetings. Usually I block out Fridays for no meetings but the day usually ends up getting stuffed with administrative, not-fun work. But to have a Tuesday clear? That was a real treat. ...
