My first year Contracts Law Book had a great impact on me. What is interesting about it is that it had less to do with the book and everything to do with the Professor teaching the class. He graduated magna cum laude from...
Win: To succeed or achieve a result (something done) through effort. As professionals, we WIN because we get things DONE. We get things DONE because we Care, we Understand, we Make it Simple, we decide to Be the Best, we Do the Impossible, we Do Things...
I would define Leadership at it’s highest level as empowering others. An individual, a woman or a man has been placed in a position of leadership and has been asked to lead a group. As part of that, the end result of leading a...
Practice In terms of what I recommend to someone who is about to walk into a something that is a stressful situation is to prepare by practicing. I think that there is a level of preparation that goes far beyond what most people make...
Wait is simply defined as: to stay where one is or delay action until something else happens. Success is simply defined as: getting something done. Wait means that nothing gets done. Action is delayed. Things sit still. Things don’t get done, they sit. Wait is not “patience.” Patience...
Your attitudes either help, speed up, and assist you in your career or they hinder, slow down, and hurt your progress in your career. Attitudes are how we think, feel, or act. They are reflected in how we choose to behave as we do things...
Leaders are experienced members of a team that decide to help others. I hear many people say, “All this starts at the top.” Sometimes this is true. Sometimes it is not. Sometimes it starts in the middle. Sometimes it is a manager, team leader, or...
Making the time to organize, plan, and direct yourself and/or others to accomplish tasks is essential to positive leadership. Creating a plan each day with details about what you intend to get done is leadership. You are leading yourself. You set yourself up to be...
Motivation is simply defined as: the reason a person has for doing something. In the subject of leadership, motivation means giving people a reason to get things done. Effective leadership has the end result of getting something done. In fact, getting things done is often...
We recently looked at working hard vs. hard work. Let’s explore the component parts of working hard. Work definition: activity involving mental or physical effort in order to achieve a result. Simply put, work means getting something done. Hard definition #1: putting a lot of energy into an...