When you’re unhappy at work …

2022-07-29T17:19:57-04:00By |High Performance, Mission|

… reflect on what your current work situation is preventing you from doing. This thought came to me as I was reading Love + Work by Marcus Buckingham, where he states: “… to live happily and fully, you have to express your loves… You’ve got to get them out somewhere, somehow. Turn them from loves [...]

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Career and Leadership Lessons from John Flint, former Group CEO of HSBC

2021-05-25T22:16:22-04:00By |Leadership|

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median tenure for employees in 2020 was around four years. That’s why it was such a treat to hear John Flint, former Group CEO of HSBC, share his career and leadership lessons during a fireside chat for the Wharton Club of NY. John spent his entire 30-year [...]

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25 Rules for Work and Life from Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone

2020-04-12T16:54:18-04:00By |Leadership, Quotes|

In What It Takes, Stephen Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Blackstone, shares the story of his success. Below are his 25 rules for work and life woven throughout the book. It might be a worthwhile exercise for you to reflect on how each of these rules may apply to you. You'll see under each rule, [...]

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Timeless resources to help you be more effective at work (updated Jan 2020)

2020-01-21T00:10:18-05:00By |Communication Skills, High Performance, Influencing Skills, Leadership|

In the Information Age, new articles, videos, and other resources are being created every day and this deluge of content can drown out older resources that have timeless wisdom worth archiving and revisiting. Below is a list of useful resources I often review and send to high performers who want to continually improve themselves: Leading [...]

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Words of Wisdom from Indra Nooyi, former CEO of Pepsi, at the Ascend National Convention

2019-09-03T02:37:57-04:00By |Communication Skills, Leadership|

It was great to hear Indra Nooyi, former CEO of Pepsi, share how she succeeded in her career at the Ascend National Convention in DC. Ascend is the largest, national non-profit organization focused on developing and promoting Pan-Asian leaders. Indra mentioned that as a minority (woman and Indian) employee, her work is often discounted. She [...]

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5 Ways to Better Lead Every Aspect of Your Life

2018-11-25T00:11:10-05:00By |High Performance, Influencing Skills, Leadership, Relationships|

When we think about leadership, it's usually in a professional context. We focus on how we lead our organizations, departments, and teams but rarely put any thought into how we lead other areas of our life. How are we doing in our family life? our community? our own health and well-being? Are we leading these [...]

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When you want to move up quickly in your career …

2017-11-08T09:34:21-05:00By |High Performance, Relationships|

... work for a superstar. During a recent trip to Los Angeles, the head of sales for a top financial services firm reflected on his career and shared with me that the #1 factor for most employee's success, including executives, is the quality of their boss. When you work for a manager who is a [...]

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Keep Learning – Knowledge Helps You Recognize Your Own Ignorance

2017-09-24T00:42:16-04:00By |High Performance, Quotes|

"We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance." John Archibald Wheeler, American Physicist (Scientific American (1992), Vol. 267.) The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know. To be successful in your career, keep learning new things. Learn broadly about many [...]

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When you want to be better than the best …

2016-12-21T00:58:42-05:00By |High Performance|

... first get to the frontier. In every Olympics including this year's games, new world records are being set by those who continue to innovate the way they train and perform. In renowned expertise researcher, K. Anders Ericsson's, book on performance, Peak, I came across this quote that served as a great reminder. "Progress is made by [...]

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Were you better than you were yesterday?

2016-01-23T11:31:49-05:00By |High Performance, Quotes|

Look at the work you've produced last year. If it doesn't look amateurish to you, you may not be learning fast enough. What did you do in the past year to better yourself and your skills? If you're not careful, you may fall for the Dunning-Kruger effect.

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When you are feeling more competent than usual …

2016-01-23T11:30:33-05:00By |High Performance|

... make sure you're not falling for the Dunning–Kruger effect, a cognitive bias where the unskilled mistakenly assess their ability to be much higher than it really is. According to their study, Dunning and Kruger proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will fail to recognize: their own lack of skill the extent of their [...]

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