Hundreds of years ago, Confucius said, “Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” How interesting! The wisest people don’t need to change and the stupidest don’t think they need to change. Everybody else … and I suspect that includes all of us … had better be about the work of making changes for a better life personally and …
Four Ways to Avoid the Grand Mistake
How to Check Your Commitment to Continuing Education Because he was getting older, the elderly carpenter told his employer that he planned to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life. His boss was sorry to see his good worker go after nearly thirty years and asked if he could build just one more house as …
3 Steps to a Professional Environment
“Professionalism is not a label you give yourself. It’s a description you hope others apply to you.”David Maister, author “True Professionalism” If you have a brown, weed-filled lawn and want a lush, green, weed-free lawn instead, you have to do more than chop off the tops of the weeds. You have to get down to the roots of those …
Nothing Succeeds like Success
Some of the best leadership advice I ever got came from Pope John XXIII. He said, See everything; overlook a lot; correct a little.” Most leaders do fairly well on the first two. It’s the third area where I see too many leaders demotivate their people. They correct too many faults at the same time. By contrast, look at how …