Would you like to have someone listen to you talk about what is important to you? Someone to listen without judgment. Someone who merely asks questions and tries to help you see clearly what’s going on in your life and business. The best part of becoming a Vistage...
“Thank you for always believing and supporting me. Even when I didn’t.”I received that in a text message Thursday from my youngest son after he got his EMT license. He’s led one of those lives in which every time he was making progress, he sabotaged his success. But...
“I am my own worst critic.” “No one is harder on me than me.” “I beat myself up for mistakes.” I hear this all the time from CEOs when we talk about mistakes, errors in judgment that they have made. Can we just stop? Self-criticism without a dose of understanding is...
Earlier this week, my wife and I finished binge-watching “Daisy Jones and the Six,” a 10-part series on a fictional rock band of the 1970s. It was entertaining but we agreed – as we usually do on these 10-part shows – it would be better in 8 parts. It would be...
An outstanding quality of the leaders I have known is the ability to break the mold with an idea or concept that was so foreign that it exposed the leader to ridicule. One of my managing editors from newspaper days, an exceptionally savvy fellow named Neal Pattison,...
Yeah, I know. March Madness and all that. I do love it. Know what else I love? The movie, “Hoosiers.” My favorite scene comes at the end when, with the score tied, Coach Gene Hackman calls for a last-second shot by someone other than the star player...
