How Transparent it Your Leadership?
5 Powerful Things Happen When A Leader Is Transparent – Forbes.
What do you think of this perspective? Do you agree? There were many comments on this article in Forbes. Let us hear YOUR voice.
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“Here’s an unavoidable truth: You are going to screw up. Everyone — including very successful people — makes boatloads of mistakes. The key to success is, as everyone knows, to learn from those mistakes and keep moving forward. But not everyone knows how……” Heidi Grant Halvorson
To Succeed, Forget Self-Esteem – Heidi Grant Halvorson – Harvard Business Review.
Coach’s Tip:
Is this the missing key to your success?
How can you apply this new knowledge?
“Football players work on their football skills, but they also lift weights to improve the core systems that their skills rely on. Think of these auto-analytics tools that way. You work on your business skills, but you need some time in the mental weight room, too.” H. James Wilson
Four New Tools for Brain Workouts – H. James Wilson – Harvard Business Review.
What has your experience been with these tools? (Please share.)
Why Relationships Matter: I-to-the-We | LinkedIn.
This is a wonderful article! Great food for thought for leaders everywhere. Language is powerful and changes the way we think about things.
Coaching Tip:
How does this change your thinking?
How can you integrate this into you daily experience?
(Let me know your ideas.)
This is a very useful list. Hang on to it! Even if you don’t need it now, chances are, there will be a time that you do… If not for you, for someone you know.
The Top 75 Websites For Your Career – Forbes.
What would you add to the list?
When hope is based on real-world experience, knowledge and tangible and intangible data, it results in trust, which is necessary to implementing any strategy. Without faith in the people, processes and technologies involved, how can we achieve anything? Hope recognizes the reality that failure happens, success is not assured, the laws of physics don’t change and prudence is needed to discern when to persevere — and when to pivot. Hope doesn’t demarcate a linear path, but it does guide us through twists and turns. Hope views the glass as half full, not half empty. Hope supports realistic optimism, a necessary component of success.
Hope Is a Strategy (Well, Sort Of) – Deborah Mills-Scofield – Harvard Business Review.
This is a high bar… but what a great way to end the week. I would suggest you keep this article around and use it as a measure from time to time as you work on getting closer… and staying closer to this ideal place in your work.
8 Signs You’ve Found Your Life’s Work | Fast Company.
I’d love your comments on this article, “8 Signs You’ve Found Your Life’s Work”
What are your experiences with getting there, and, staying there?
For certain emotions — particularly happiness and anger — only a few hours of strengths usage are needed to maximize one’s chance of having a good day. By contrast, stress and worry decrease, and respect increases with each additional hour of reported strengths usage. For each of these emotional experiences, every additional hour of strengths usage adds as much benefit as the first hour. One reason why these emotions – stress, worry, and respect — differ from some of the others may be that laughter and anger tend to be fleeting, momentary experiences. By comparison, respect is an attitude that forms over time.
Here’s an article from the Gallup organization about their extensive research on using strengths, and the powerful effect this can have on how you experience your day.
When Americans Use Their Strengths More, They Stress Less.
Coaching Questions:
Are you using your strengths every day? If not, why not?
Do you know what your strengths really are? If not, how can you assess them?
How can you make a change, no matter how small, that will get more of your strengths into use this week?
The job of any physician is part empathic and part problem solving. This constitutes an inherent trade-off in medicine because the human brain does not have infinite computational resources or time to perform both tasks equally well. One must be caring while also figuring out a proper diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, often under conditions of uncertainty.
Physicians-What do you think of this article from Scientific American?
Why Doctors Should Be More Empathetic–But Not Too Much More: Scientific American.
THIS is a good thing! Take a look at this U.S. Census Bureau data:
