Ten Tips for Tackling Your Mountain, Part 1
Word Count: 1,351 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. At one point or another, just about everyone is faced with a mountain he or she must climb. In most cases, it is a metaphorical mountain rather than an...
View ArticleTen Tips for Tackling Your Mountain, Part 2
Word Count: 1,451 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. At some point, you’ll have to climb a metaphorical mountain in your professional or personal life. You’ll have to travel through unchartered rocky...
View ArticleSelf-Confidence and the Goldilocks Effect
Word Count: 1,295 Estimated Read Time: 5 min. The Confidence Spectrum: Insecurity, Self-Confidence and Over-Confidence Everyone wants to boost their self-confidence. It is an essential quality in...
View ArticleHow to Decrease Decision Fatigue
Word Count: 1,382 Estimated Read Time: 6 1/2 min. Daily Decision Overload General consensus is that the average adult makes about 35,000 decisions in a day. That’s a LOT of decisions! If it sounds...
View ArticleThinking Errors and Business: Negativity Bias – Part 1
Word Count: 1,225 Estimated Read Time: 5 min. The Problem with Negativity Bias and Business People regularly have ‘thinking errors’. These errors of the mind are generally instinctive. One thinking...
View ArticleThinking Errors and Business: Negativity Bias – Part 2
Word Count: 1,332 Estimated Read Time: 5 1/2 min. Countering Negativity Bias in Individuals and Business Negativity Bias refers to the idea that things of a negative nature — unpleasant thoughts,...
View ArticleThinking Errors and Business: Confirmation Bias, Part 1
Word Count: 1,367 Estimated Read Time: 5 1/2 min. Confirmation Bias: The Mind Wants to be Right Has this ever happened to you? You believe something to be true, and then a research study you read...
View ArticleThinking Errors and Business: Confirmation Bias, Part 2
Word Count: 1,616 Estimated Read Time: 6 1/2 min. The Downside of Confirmation Bias The term Confirmation Bias was first coined by British psychologist Peter Cathcart Wason in 1960 during an...
View ArticleIt’s A Matter of Time
Word Count: 1,186 Estimated Read Time: 5 min. The average life expectancy for a person in the U.S. is 79 years of age. Broken down by gender, it’s 76 years for a man and 81 years for a woman. The...
View Article10 Ways for Companies to Help Staff Grow and Develop – Part 1
Word Count: 1,423 Estimated Read Time: 5 1/2 min. The U.S. Labor Market shows that unemployment is pretty low. The overall unemployment rate is at 4% nationwide.[1] But even that number doesn’t tell...
View Article10 Ways for Companies to Help Staff Grow and Develop – Part 2
Word Count: 1,289 Estimated Read Time: 5 min. Growth is an inherent part of human DNA. Individuals begin growing at birth and the growth process never really ends. First, it is “growing up” from...
View ArticleWhat To Do (and Not Do) When An Employee Resigns
Word Count: 1,803 Estimated Read Time: 7 min. As sure as death and taxes, business owners, leaders and managers should absolutely expect most employees to resign over time. Almost no one works at the...
View ArticleElevating Ordinary Moments to Create Extraordinary Experiences for Clients...
Word Count: 1,357 Estimated Read Time: 5 ½ min. Every company and leader is looking for ways to dazzle clients and keep top talent engaged and excited. They want to ‘add sizzle and gleam to the...
View ArticleThe Butterfly Effect on Business, Part 1
Word Count: 1,579 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. The marvels of creation attest to the Creator, as it is simply impossible for any human being to have orchestrated all these minute details. Without...
View ArticleThe Butterfly Effect on Business, Part 2
Word Count: 1,947 Estimated Read Time: 8 min. In Poor Richard’s Almanack[1], Benjamin Franklin once wrote: ““For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For the want of a shoe, the horse was lost....
View ArticleTo Develop the Most Successful Business, Embrace Kaizen – Part 1
Word Count: 1,364 Estimated Read Time: 5 ½ min. Kaizen is the Japanese word for ‘Improvement’. Generally, it is said that Kai means change and zen means good or better. But it actually translates...
View ArticleTo Develop the Most Successful Business, Embrace Kaizen – Part 2
Word Count: 1,653 Estimated Read Time: 6 ½ min. Change happens. Change happens in every business or organization, and those changes can either be controlled and guided by the company or are controlled...
View ArticleWhy Many Overachievers, Rising Stars and Go Getters feel like Imposters
Word Count: 1,457 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. Exposing Imposter Syndrome Imposter Syndrome is a condition experienced secretly — and often with deep fear and shame — by many super stars, high...
View ArticleThe Importance of Organizational Confidence
Word Count: 1,653 Estimated Read Time: 6 1/2 min. Organizational Confidence: Fact or Myth Confidence is one of those vague traits that is hard to define but you know when you see it. It is a...
View ArticleNavigating Workplace Negativity
Is there a Negative Nancy, Glum Gus or Pessimistic Peter bringing down your entire workplace? This negative ninny focuses on the bad to the exclusion of all positive aspects, engaging in “all or...
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