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Category Archives: Trust
The Wealthy Leader
I have been bankrupt a few times in my life. And I am not talking about the financial kind. My bankruptcy was one of the Spirit. These were times of great cynicism and negativity. I was constantly borrowing from my past and trying hard to create a positive future. As I look back, I can see that I was being stingy. I did not share much of myself with the world and therefore my emotional and mental bank accounts were running on empty. Today, I know that money is not the singular element of great abundance. I submit to you … 
Leading From Truth
For 15 years I led culture change programs inside of some of the most powerful organizations in the whole world. I was amazed at how much time individuals and teams would spend “running around the flower pot” rather than telling the truth. Some of us are afraid of the truth. We do everything we can to avoid saying it. The simplicity of the truth can cut through the minutiae and bring a solution to your team and life in short order. For what reason, do some of us avoid it? We are afraid we will hurt someone’s feelings? We perceive …
Creating Something From Nothing
Something always begins with nothing. The action of creating a result starts with a thought that you want something. Maybe you want to write a book. Therefore you start with a blank page. Perhaps you want to increase sales in your department. That means a blank order form, or signing a new client which requires starting a new relationship where before there was none. It all starts with nothing. If you want to build a home, it begins with an open piece of ground. If you want to begin a new company, there will be no name and zero employees …
Gratitude: The Key To Freedom
Gratitude is access to positive leadership. I submit to you the possibility that without it you can’t sustain any forward motion in your life or business. Consider that you work hard to reach your goals. You reach some of them and maybe not all of them. Because our world is somewhat conditioned to look at what we don’t have, you focus on what is not working. That focus gets us stuck and life becomes meaning-less or less than purposeful. So how do I get unstuck? I get free the same way you do. Like a good Teflon pan, I don’t …
It takes guts to follow your gut
He lied to me. Basically, he told me I would “never” lead a normal life if I did not get the surgery. This was nearly 20 years ago and it seems as present as early morning today. I was told that he was one of the top five surgeons in the entire world. I respected him. The accident had occurred a few weeks earlier and to this day nobody really knows why it happened. I had been in the intensive care unit for eight days and the blood clot could have traveled to a lung. It was nearly …
How does anger make me more loving?
Anger can be a good thing. Yes, anger if used appropriately can be healing. We are afraid of anger in our society. It makes us uncomfortable and we tend to do everything we can to avoid it. Now, for clarity and to avoid lots of “angry” email – I am not talking about rage with a hunting knife kind of anger. I am talking about stuffed fear. I am talking about the emotion that steals our creativity and freedom. Do you people that hold back their anger to avoid how they really feel when they are ticked off? This …
