excellence

Getting Excellence from Others

In case you haven’t noticed, just about everything has changed in the world of work in the last 25 years. In the OLD world, in the old system, people were expected to take orders. They were expected to park their brains, shut their mouths and work their forty hours a week. But somewhere along the way, some organizations got smart. …

The One Thing that Separates the Winners from the Losers

“Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.”Mitt Romney, past governor of Massachusetts   Without a doubt, people who achieve excellence share a common set of characteristics. And it doesn’t matter if they are in business, education, government, health care or even in parenting and homemaking. People of excellence have certain psychological mechanisms going on inside them. Strangely enough, I …