Your success in any given task will be shaped by the extent to which you love the other people involved in that task. Some 70 years ago, the great American humorist, Will Rogers said, “As long as you live, you’ll never find a method as effective in getting through to another person as making that person feel important.” He’s right. …
Write Hurts In The Sand, And Carve Blessings Into Stone
Unforgiveness is like drinking a poison and hoping the other will die. It doesn’t matter how good of a leader you are or how great your team is. It doesn’t matter how much you care about someone else. Sooner or later, you will experience conflict with everyone in your life. So you’ve got to know how to resolve your conflicts. …
Have The Courage To Ask Brave Questions – And Really Listen
Ask and you shall receive. If you read last week’s Tip, you read about my personal losses and my discovery of Brave Questions. You read about the transformational power of questions–asking the right questions and listening in the right way. But let me finish the story. My first serious use of the “brave question-20 question” technique came in November, 1983. …
Brave Questions
If you want to G-E-T, you’ve got to A-S-K. The contents of my new book, Brave Questions: How To Build Stronger Relationships By Asking All The Right Questions, changed my life, and it will change yours. But let me explain. It was August, 1979, and I got a phone call from my father that changed my life forever. He was …