Gather your tribe!
“If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original!”
Who do you admire? These people could be living or not. Gathering the list of who you admire is a very fun exercise. The next step is to identify why you admire them – or what about them you find most intriguing.
When you have your list of the qualities and actions you admire, look for duplications and trends. Group like qualities together – they no longer have to be associated… Continue reading
Certainty
We’re continuing to explore the five major drivers of human behavior. The brain is a pattern recognition machine that is constantly trying to predict the future. We crave certainty so that prediction is possible. Without prediction you’re using dramatically more resources to process moment-to-moment experience.
Small amounts of uncertainty generate an ‘error’ response in the brain taking attention away from your goals and forcing attention to the error. If someone is acting out of character or not telling you the whole truth this can create uncertainty and cause an error response. Until this is resolved,… Continue reading
Travel
Over the last 20 years I’ve traveled a lot for business. I’ve also had the good fortune to travel for pleasure. I’ve always looked at travel as a good test of how a person handles life in general. Plans get changed, the unexpected happens, you’re not always in control of circumstances – how you deal with these illustrates so much. Travel has taught me some great lessons.
Lesson 1: Plans change. No matter how well you plan, adjustments always need to be made. It could be the weather isn’t cooperating, connections aren’t… Continue reading
Change
Most organizations experience change. Sometimes the change is gradual and hardly noticeable until you think back to how things were a year or two before. Other change is conscious and has a distinctive timeframe – where the old way ceases to be and the new way becomes the norm. The challenge comes when you’d like the entire organization to embrace and accept the change. Here are some tips to meet that challenge.
Tip 1: Early. Remember if you’ve initiated the change, you’ve got to give your staff time to catch up. You may… Continue reading
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