Insights To Boost Your Career and Success ’Tis the Season When Some Sellers Won’t Sell Insight #56 Once upon a time... Actually, this is a true story as then reported in the news. A visitor to London in December of a certain year spent hours looking for the latest must-have Santa toy for his son in Africa. The desired toy was not to be found at any store. But the determined father stumbled upon an out of the way store where, oh happiness, one toy remained in stock. And that was the problem....
4 days ago • 1 min read
Questions To Trigger Your Thinking Does Your Attitude Contradict Your Mindset? Or Vice Versa? Trigger Question #65 Some of us use mindset and attitude as synonyms. But if we think about it, then maybe we shouldn't. Mindset is a way of thinking. Attitude is a way of being. Your habitual way of being (your attitude) can influence your way of thinking (your mindset). For example, if you adopted a forceful position (attitude) on a topic, then you will more easily see things that support your...
22 days ago • 1 min read
Insights To Boost Your Career and Success Thanksgiving Before Great Expectations Insight #176 Next week, in the USA, we enter the period of giving thanks and then we jump straight into the period of great expectations. Actually, this is the correct order of things. Gratitude first, then expectation. Big or small. A common mistake we make is to withhold gratitude until we have received. We wait until we can judge whether what we have received is worthy of thanksgiving. Imagine being served by...
25 days ago • 1 min read
Questions To Trigger Your Thinking Does Fear Stop You Taking a Guess? Trigger Question #138 What do you do when your boss asks you a tough question? Do you answer smoothly? Or do you hesitate: (a) Because you don’t know the correct answer? (b) Because you are too timid to say what you think? (c) Because you don’t feel wise enough to hazard a guess? (d) Or because you believe the answer is nobody’s business? Let’s assume (d) does not apply, because this is happening at work. (Really, people,...
29 days ago • 2 min read
Insights To Boost Your Career and Success Don’t Miss Take Yourself by Reinventing Backwards Insight #118 Here's something I wish someone would explain to this current crop of callous politicians: Any fool can rewrite history that only other fools will believe. Who do I blame for this insane idea of rewriting history? Yes, I know it is an idea as old as Adam, the first guy to say, "I didn't do it!" But today the movie industry has boosted this mindset, what with its passion for rewrites of...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Questions To Trigger Your Thinking Do You Promise To Do or Do You Just Agree To Do? Trigger Question #48 Why does it matter whether you promise to or agree to? Well, answer this question first. How do you win trust and influence outcomes? (Sorry, Dale Carnegie.) First, let’s consider the opposite. How to destroy trust. (Politicians already know how, so they can ignore this.) You destroy trust by making promises you cannot satisfy, or don’t plan to deliver. The bonus is that you then don’t...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Insights To Boost Your Career and Success Why Facts Don’t Really Matter and Never Have Insight #110 This post has nothing to do with what we hear from politicians and business leaders. But maybe it has. And it has nothing to do with conspiracy spreaders, so-called influencers, and other blabbering self-proclaimed experts. Maybe it has. You decide. Or maybe you won't bother. Which could be another reason facts no longer matter. But still, you have to admit, it’s amazing what so many instant,...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Questions To Trigger Your Thinking Do You Wait for Feedback or Do You Demand Feedback? Trigger Question #62 Whenever I read about voting taking place somewhere on our planet, I think about the people who want feedback, those who fear feedback, and those who believe they can ignore feedback. Can you guess who they are? Employees; politicians; bosses. Let me explain this in reverse order. Any boss can easily ignore feedback until that boss’s boss gets annoyed. (Sometimes the boss’s boss is a...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Insights To Boost Your Career and Success Sage Advice for Limping Leaders and Fed Up Followers Insight #367 Here’s a lesson for any limping leader, a lesson from a Mister Vladimir Lenin. Yes, that guy, the one who led the Russian Revolution of 1917. Oh, come on, people! I know he was a Marxist and a communist and a mass murderer, but a powerful lesson is a worthy lesson, irrespective of the source. Don’t discriminate in your learning. That’s taking political correctness too far. Here’s the...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read