by Jonathan | Apr 27, 2022 | Decision Making, Habits, Leadership, Personal Development
In his latest TED talk, Bill Gates said that the goal was to stop outbreaks before they become pandemics. I heard Tony Robbins once say that we should kill the monster while it is small before it is eating the city. A few thousand years ago the sage, Lao Tzu, said...
by Jonathan | Mar 22, 2022 | Decision Making, Habits, Leadership, Relationships
You are slow. And so am I. It’s a good thing, but it can be frustrating. We are slowly being conditioned by tech that speed is good. Page load times, shipping times, instant communication. Tech can’t go fast enough. But people are slow. And, really, being...
by Jonathan | Mar 7, 2022 | Decision Making, Interpersonal Skills, Leadership, Personal Development, Relationships
Feedback is not truth, it’s perspective. It’s easy for us to instantly categorize feedback as truth. Our boss gives us some feedback after our presentation, well that must be true! Website reviews? True. The feedback we give to our spouses or kids? True....
by Jonathan | Aug 4, 2021 | Communication, Core Values, Culture, Decision Making, Leadership
The most influential culture is the culture closest to you. (Reminder: Culture is not bean bag chairs and free lunch. Culture is a group’s collective behaviors, attitudes, expectations, and artifacts that create pressures to influence an individual’s...
by Jonathan | Aug 2, 2021 | Core Values, Culture, Decision Making, Leadership
What separates a “weak” from a “muscular” core value? The answer has nothing to do with the value itself. Instead, it has to do with how the value is upheld within the firm. We can place core values on a spectrum: Level 0 – No core values...
by Jonathan | Jul 29, 2021 | Core Values, Culture, Decision Making, Leadership
LinkedIn has just put one of their core values to the test. The CEO of LinkedIn announced today that instead of dictating a one-size-fits-all policy about returning to the office, they will leave it up to their people to decide. This no small potatoes. We are talking...
