Category Archives: outcomes

Leadership Decisions:
How to Avoid Faulty Thinking

I’m curious about business decision processes and I’ve been thinking about how even smart leaders can make the wrong choices. For one thing, I’ve been reading Chip and Dan Heath’s new book Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work (Random House Digital, Inc., 2013). The Heath brothers are professors who have several [...]
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Genius-Makers: How Smart Leaders Multiply Performance

Smart leaders know how to bring out the best in their people. They multiply performance, producing more with less. In the book Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (HarperBusiness, 2010), authors Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown interviewed and assessed more than 150 leaders on managerial practices. Their research sheds light on the important [...]
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New Year’s Resolutions: A Hard Look at
Competing Commitments

One of my favorite books over the Holidays was Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization, by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey. Last week I mentioned it in regards to New Year’s Resolutions. The authors make a very clear case for a hard look at [...]
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Define Success: Two Olympic Heroes

How do you define success for yourself? One brilliant moment, or do you strive to leave a legacy of small victories over a lifetime? How many of you know who Jesse Owens is? Yes, he’s a major figure in American history. In 1936, Jesse won the Gold Medal in the 100 meter dash at the [...]
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Barriers to Success: Incongruence and a Bad Attitude

Clarity, Intention, Attention, Focus: That’s the way to create the life you want for yourself. But like any simple formula for success, there are all sorts of barriers along the path if you want to consistently implement clear intention, attention and focus. It can be simple, but certainly not easy. Even with the best plans [...]
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Focus on Success: How Do You Spend Your Time?

Let’s focus on how focus is key to career success. Four concepts contribute to success: Clarity, Intention, Attention and Focus. It’s worth spending a time thinking, planning and taking action on each element. I’ve been covering each in recent blog posts. and these elements are covered in detail by my co-authors and I in our [...]
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Attention + Accountability: Putting a Success Plan into Action

In my recent blog posts, we’ve been talking a lot about success concepts:  Clarity, Intention, Attention and Focus. These four elements are covered in detail by my co-authors and I in our book, “Do Eagles Just Wing It?” If you’ve been following me, you’ve done a lot of conceptual work. A lot of thinking and [...]
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Success: The Secret Energy Force Behind It

I’ve been laying out a success formula for life and career through Clarity, Intention, Attention and Focus. These are the four keys my co-authors and I talk about in our latest book, “Do Eagles Just Wing It?” By writing down specific intentions you get clarity, and then you identify the critical success factors and waypoints [...]
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The SMART Way to Plan for Success in Life and Career

Luck only gets you so far. In good times, anyone can get lucky. Right now, things are a little harder. Smart people don’t count on luck, they plan. Then they work hard and are ready when “luck” strikes. I’ve been laying out a success formula for life and career through Clarity, Intention, Attention and Focus. [...]
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Clarity Takes You Where You Want to Go

Without clarity, our actions are just actions. We’re moving, we’re moving, but we’re not really getting anywhere. It literally doesn’t matter how hard we work, because we’re not working toward anything. But with clarity, two powerful things happen. The first is, we start making better choices. When you’re clear about what you want, it’s much [...]
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