Category: Leadership

Unfairness + Encouraging Minimalist Performance: A Surefire Way to Lose Your Employees

Leaving the unexpectedly late from work a few nights ago, I thought back to an experience early in my working life. I had been taught all through my childhood to work as hard as possible, and that working late is to be expected. I was taught to believe that good things happen when you push [...]

Friday November 19th, 2010 in Leadership | Comments Off

You Decide Whether To Feel Fear or To Experience Excitement

The mind is a wonderful thing. It is through the conscious mind that the same experience for one person may be gut-wrenchingly fearsome, and for another, an absolutely exhilarating thrill. Physiologically-speaking, arousal is arousal is arousal. Your body is primed for action when aroused. The adrenaline that courses through your body when you’re scared is [...]

Tuesday October 12th, 2010 in Leadership, News & Commentary, Other Fun Stuff | 3 Comments »

Are You Selfish Enough to Be Successful in Business?

Perhaps Gordon Gecko got it right with his infamous quote, “Greed is good.” Everything worthwhile takes sacrifice, but the sacrifice necessary for business success and building a successful business is one born of a burning self-interest – and given the challenges inherent in competing in the commercial arena, that flame of self-interest has to burn [...]

Wednesday September 22nd, 2010 in Leadership, News & Commentary | 1 Comment »

The 8 Keys to Success – and Staying Successful

What are the keys to success? To many people, that’s like asking what the winning numbers are to the big lottery jackpot. There is the belief that there just might be a simple key to success, like turning the key to starting a car. Well, the recipe for success is indeed conceptually simple, but it’s [...]

Monday August 23rd, 2010 in Leadership | Comments Off

Nurture Your First-Followers, or You’re Just a Lone Nut!

Here is a fantastic little video that I came across, demonstrating how vital it is for would-be leaders to nurture their first followers.  The video’s narration says everything that I could say about this video. I’ll warn you that it’s got the same smooth tracking and motion that Blair Witch Project did – that means, [...]

Sunday February 14th, 2010 in Leadership | Comments Off