The Shades of Procrastination We looked at passivity and the contaminating effects of passive compliance. You’ll notice that complying while not ‘buying in’ to a request, task or even [...]
What are the critical “actionable items” you need to identify in your business? I wrote this brief piece about 4 years ago in response to an executive who was struggling with his company’s [...]
How to Make Anyone Fall in Love With You (Or Your Product, Or Your Service) I had a really fun dinner at a Thai restaurant by the beach with a single female friend pondering the unanswerable [...]
Standards of Excellence My 8th grade teacher, Ms Ward, was right. She taught that success was only partially an individual effort. She started the year by announcing that all her students (one [...]
How to Create an Irresistible Invitation to Engage It’s possible that we make too much of ‘the new year.’ It’s the same year after all, with a little cultural window dressing added. Perhaps we [...]
5 essential questions to start the new year And now (drum roll), the new year begins. I’m tired of hearing people tell me to write my goals down. I always lose the paper on which they are [...]
The week before Christmas Why not try something different in honoring the shared joy and celebration we reach for at year’s end? I like to think of this multifaceted celebration – the ending of [...]
Giving Thanks? Why bother? It’s fairly easy to mouth the ‘I give thanks for’ words. But words are, in this instance, our least powerful tool in entering a time of deep gratitude for abundance [...]
Welcome to Centrifugal Leadership Blog Blogs are fun – if you like the content, the writer’s style, frequency and they happen to be helpful. Big order. We (myself and a growing team of interested [...]
Five Ways to Increase Your Energy! I’m an energy junkie. I’ve tried all sorts of things to ramp up my mid-day energy including candy bars, more coffee, energy drinks and naps. Naps are good [...]