Better Insights, Better Results
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” — Charles R. Swindoll. A friend of mine sent me an email titled “Twelve Little Laws of Life.” The laws were short and sweet and I was impressed. I hunted down the original author Tom Hoobyar. Tom said I was free …
How do you improve your results? How do you consistently increase your success? Have you ever wondered why somebody's *advice* was useless for you at the time? Maybe, they were giving you ideas to change your thinking when what you really needed was better techniques. Have you ever spun your wheels and churned all your energy, only to realize later that you needed to think differently about the problem and change your approach? The first thing to figure out is where you need to change. Here's a simple frame I've been using to help my mentees at Microsoft understand where to change, so they play their best game.
“Dear Santa, I have been nice all year. Most of the time. Once in a while. Never mind, I’ll just buy my own stuff.” — Anonymous Well, it’s the holiday season, so I thought I’d share some lessons from old St. Nick. Santa has always been one of my heroes. Granted I never thought much …
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” — W.B. Yeats Wanna learn more effectively or be a better teacher, or how to communicate and connect with people better, or how to influence more effectively? Learn to match or bridge learning styles. It’s one of those things you do …
I created a browsable list of my favorite personal development books. I think I ended up with ~100 books, and that’s just a small subset of my collection (which explains why my bookshelf is overflowing). I put my top 5 at the top, though it was hard to whittle down to my fave five list. …
