214 Letting Go of the Old, Making Way for the New
By Your Life
If you want to grow personally, if you want your company to grow, you must let go of the old to make way for the new. This is hard when it means confronting our egos and our strongly held beliefs.
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213 Earning Trust
By Your Life
All companies should aspire to be trusted. All people should aspire to be trusted, because great teams are built on trust. But, in order to be trusted, you must be trustworthy.
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210 Great Leader, Great Coach (Repeat)
By Your Life
Coaching is often considered a punishment or a penalty for having done something wrong. Coaching is reserved for troubled employees instead of a common practice that benefits everyone.
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212 Rising from Failure (Repeat)
By Your Life
It is easy to be discouraged when we fail and unless we seek the lesson, we’ll never discover the opportunity that is hiding in the darkness.
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211 What’s Right Isn’t Always Right (Repeat)
By Your Life
Having a right to do something and doing the right thing, are not the same. Ethical behavior is knowing the difference and acting accordingly.
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209 Combatting Envy
By Your Life
We’re all guilty of making bad decisions. How do you deal with good fortune—your own and that of others—is what separates the winners from the losers, and the envious from the grateful.
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208 Merciful or Enabling?
By Your Life
A leader’s #1 job is to develop the people he/she leads. But how do you know when you’ve crossed the line from helping them improve to enabling them to continue failing?
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207 Transform Your Listening
By Your Life
Listening is the most important element of effective communication. It is a skill that can be developed, but most of us don’t invest in practicing to improve. Learn to listen and you’ll transform your life.
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206 Easy Tough Decisions
By Your Life
In business, and in life, we face thousands of forks in the road. When your guiding principles are clear, honoring your core values is the easiest tough decision you’ll ever make.
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205 A Light for the Blind
By Your Life
Beware of pointing out others’ wrong behavior as a justification for your own. You’re pointing to the splinter in the other person’s eye when you’ve got a wooden beam in your own.
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