I’m recording this episode on the road this week, delivering a keynote on leadership at a Project Management Institute Professional Development Day. Since I have leadership on the brain today, let me ask you: Think...
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Have you ever heard this quote?“There’s an inverse relationship between your level in a company and your ability to see reality.” We joke about that at times when it seems like the people above us...
Episode Duration 25:21 In our last episode you heard the first portion of my discussion with Cathy N. Davidson, author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way...
Episode Duration 16:52 So let me guess…. While you’re listening to this cast right now, I’m guessing you’re also doing something else as well, right? Maybe driving a car or checking e-mail or working out....
One of the lessons that eventually becomes clear is that managing is not just managing down: leading those people who report to us. In fact, the higher I got in organizations, the more I found...
Lead projects long enough and eventually you’ll have to deal with the problem project. Whether you were involved with the project from the beginning or inheriting problems from someone else, the reality is we need...
One of the great challenges of business is how to go from idea to delivery. It’s easy to talk about ideas but turning those into a finished product requires much more than talk. It can...
Ever get a crazy idea and decide to act on it? Too often I just sit on the idea instead of taking action. In late May I had a crazy idea: to produce a Father’s Day Rap…
So let me ask you a question: How strong is your willpower? When you want to make a change, how successful are you at not only making it but also sustaining it? Whether at work...