Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Leadership / Motivation”
Are you a champ or a chump? And what about the people around you? I suspect you know some of each. For example, you’ve probably got some wonderful coworkers on your team. They’re hard working, dedicated, and loyal. They’ve got champ or champion written all over them. But you also know some people who don’t have a lot of drive …
Every day I get dozens of commercial and political emails trying to sell me some product or some candidate. And often times they will use a Subject Line that suggests they are going to reveal some dirty little secrets about a competitor’s product or a different politician. I have to admit that those emails are intriguing. After all, we’d all like to …
I grew up in the Christmas tree business. Indeed, my father was a leader in the Christmas tree business. He personally planted, raised, pruned, cut, delivered, and sold hundreds of thousands of Christmas trees for 47 years. And in many ways, he was a Santa Claus leader to so many people. He hired kids, juvenile delinquents, alcoholics, and the down-and-outers that no one else …
My first career was in corrections, working as a counselor in a juvenile reformatory. I worked with robbers, pimps, addicts, and hustlers. And most of the boys came from really tough circumstances. Nonetheless, I would constantly tell them that their future … their success and achievement or their failure and setback … would all be determined by their answer to …
