When I was writing my book, Do a Day, I had written a fairly long and, let’s just say, impassioned section on drinking alcohol. It was a bit of an aside that took the chapter down a path of less coherence and strength, and my editor rightly suggested taking it …
Read More »How Can You Be Goal-Oriented If You Prefer to Fly by the Seat of Your Pants?
Here’s why having goals mean you can’t have chance encounters with opportunity I was recently did a podcast appearance where the host asked me a challenging question I had never really contemplated before when I was talking about setting meaningful goals. He asked if all the setting and focusing on goalsremoved any opportunity …
Read More »Be Jay-Z (What I Learned by Doing My First TED Talk)
When I started work on my book, Do a Day, I had a vision of being on stage doing a TED talk. on March 6th, that vision became a reality. Well, mostly. My vision was to be on the big TED stage, and I did a TEDx event, but it’s close …
Read More »Is Your Team Change-Resistant? Here’s How to Lead Them Through It in 2 Steps
Human nature makes change hard to deal with for any employee, but you can overcome that and lead your team forward. Have you ever been given a short cut from your normal route only to feel like it took much longer than your normal route? Have you looked at the …
Read More »Want to Achieve More in Your Job? These 4 Simple Things Can Help
Learn the surprising reason doing less actually helps you achieve more and get farther in your career. If you said the biggest thing standing in the way of a company’s success is its competition, you’d be wrong. In fact, it is the daily ‘stuff’ that flies at you, demanding to get done as …
Read More »What Doing 87 Podcast Interviews Taught Me About Building a Social Media Brand
Building your social media brand is not about tricks and tools. It’s about these 4 things. I published my first book last March, which was an amazing achievement and the culmination of almost a year and a half of serious effort. The effort to successfully promote it can be even greater than to write …
Read More »Shorts, Tights or Who Cares?
Oncs, I was at an offsite meeting for work at an amazing resort in the Poconos. I’s never been to the area before, but it’s similar to much of the Northeast—beautiful, not-over-populated, wooded areas. That includes having some great spots to run in, including a gorgeous PGA golf course across …
Read More »The 1 Thing You Need Most in a Mentor (That Most People Try to Avoid)
Mentors can help you build your career as a leader, but to really help you grow, they may need to be tougher than you want. Having a mentor can have a tremendous impact on your career. The right one can help guide you through complex situations, work on self-growth and …
Read More »3 Simple Secrets to Help You Get Fit While Traveling for Business
Think being a road warrior means you cannot be in shape? Follow these three principles to stay healthy no matter how much you travel. I’ve traveled a lot over my career. It’s often an every-week situation with two to four flights, hours of driving, multiple hotels, early mornings and late …
Read More »Advocating for Yourself Can Make or Break Your Startup (And Save Your Life). Here’s How
There’s a surprising lesson I learned from having a lot of surgery that helped with fundraising for a startup–find out the lesson to help your business. I, like many other people, have had surgery. Unlike many people I have had surgery 15 times. People always ask me what they were for, and …
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