LEAD 365 Alumni, we hope you enjoyed the holidays, including some time off for yourself and some team with family and friends. Over the past few days I’ve done what is very natural for many of us to do at this time of year: I’ve been reflecting on 2016 and...
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.”...
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....
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...
(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...
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD 365, although all are welcome to read it.) Years ago I had the strangest electrical problem with my car in which two gauges stopped working: my speedometer and tachometer. What was weird was that their “not working” needle...
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