Take Another Look
This is a busy season for many of you, so today we're offering something fun to illustrate how powerful perspective really is, and to share some awesome creativity, planning, and dedication from the team that pulled this off. OK Go is a band that is known for their...
The Losada Line: A Formula for Feedback
Last week, coming off from Thanksgiving, I wrote about the importance of being a grateful person. In doing so, I used some wisdom from Shawn Achor’s great book, The Happiness Advantage. This week I'm continuing along a similar line of thinking using the same book to...
The Value of Gratitude
I hope all of your are coming off a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday, including some extra time of fun with your family. For many of us, Thanksgiving is the best holiday of the year. I don't think it's only because of the massive amounts of great food, or even because...
Take a Look, It’s in a Book
A man was once fired from his job. In the meeting where he was let go he said, “How can you fire me after I have worked twenty-six years for this company?” The answer his boss gave was, “No, you’ve only worked here one year, then repeated that twenty-five times.”...
Why Can’t We Be Friends
You may be aware that there was an election last week, a rather contentious one. Don't worry, I'm not going to talk about politics today. But I am going to talk about beliefs. The division we've all seen in our nation around who and what our country needs is a perfect...
Beliefs, Culture, and Grit
I am reading a good book right now called Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth. In a nutshell, this book is about the various psychological studies done over many years around what makes people successful. Of course in these studies they are...
I Believe I Can Fly
How malleable are our beliefs? Two weeks ago Jeff posted on emotional maturity. In that post, he mentioned psychologist Albert Ellis's ABCs of emotions: There is an Activating event, which we filter through our Belief system to produce an emotional Consequence. Right...
Emotional Maturity: How do I get there?
Scenario 1: It's Monday morning and you are feeling great. You took the time Sunday evening to really get yourself organized, and you planned out for the week in order to help things go smoothly. No sooner do you arrive at work and someone comes up to you with a...
Time Flies (Away)
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD 365, although all are welcome to read it.) I'm supposed to be in New York visiting a friend right now. Instead, I'm sitting in my Grand Rapids home office writing this post with a new understanding of the risks of flying super...
The Great Eight: Wrap Up
I've served on a whole lot of teams in my life, some great, some not-so-great, and I can say without hesitation that the team I work with at Leading by DESIGN is the best, healthiest, most connected team I've worked on. I think the four of us (Rodger, Jeff, Gerald,...