We have to take the long-view and seek independent objective verification to get out of our own way. Read More
What’s the Meaning of Your Biz?
Why should we manage our own biz? What meaning does it have? As I look at rewriting the Biz of You book, I’ve been asking myself these question over and over. I’ve been seeking outside feedback by talking to all kinds of folks and reading various books on meaning. I came across one by Will… Read More
Make Life Happen
People wander through life aimlessly without a sense of purpose. We risk being manipulated and taken advantage of without knowing our own truth and our value in our own eyes and the minds of others. We risk our creative spark and heart fire being extinguished without strengthening our connections with every interaction and having an… Read More
Make a Damn Decision
If you can’t make decisions, you’re not a leader. You restrict your ability to adapt and thus lose flexibility and diversity. Over time lack of decision-making will cause you to atrophy and be cut off from the systems you integrate with. This further restricts your ability to evolve with the world around you. Meaninglessness creeps… Read More
Managing Our Aging
Physical change is present throughout our lives and it’s up to us to manage it. Our bodies grow and mature into our twenties and thirties. In our thirties and forties our bodies begin to show signs of wear and tear depending what we did in prior years. In our fifties and sixties we can get… Read More
Providing for Tomorrow
We all have made choices favoring the short-term instead of taking into account the long-term consequences of our actions. Some of us do this regularly and a few fail to look beyond what’s in front of them. It’s easy to do when our societies push short-term gratification as it benefits the company selling this… Read More
Can’t Lead From the Weeds
There are those in positions of power who get lost in their own egos and need to be in the center of things. These people wind up leading with techniques like micro-managing, helicopter-managing or incessantly dabbling in the workings of their particular organizations and even the work of other organizations. They get placed in these… Read More
Own Up and Put Out
Transformation of inputs into outputs – this is the process by which the goals are obtained. I found the above line while poking around some system thinking pages on Wikipedia. This is a basic idea of not only systems thinking but also the process approach mentioned in a previous post. It’s also key to leadership.… Read More
What’s Worthy of Your Strife?
“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.” -Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning What’s the goal… Read More
Letting Go
It’s interesting how in business it costs more money to retain aging equipment and systems. As an example, if you have some capital equipment purchased years ago with the depreciation long gone there comes a point when you have to pay to get rid of it. The loss of performance over time also costs the… Read More
Business of You 