Have you ever found yourself lost in unfamiliar territory, all your best laid plans gone awry, without a clue what to do next?  Maybe it’s a project that leads you to feel like you’re in over your head, or a new job or other life change that you haven’t quite acclimated to.  It’s unnerving and…

Often when I tell people that I wrote a book called The Pinocchio Principle: Becoming a Real Leader, they assume it must have something to do with ethics.  It’s understandable, since the first thing most of us think of when we hear “Pinocchio” is a puppet whose nose grew when he lied.  Pinocchio could easily…

  I’m delighted to announce that my book, The Pinocchio Principle: Becoming a Real Leader is now available as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store!  Today’s post on bringing life back into work is an excerpt from the Preface.  I hope you enjoy it.   The Pinocchio Principle: Becoming a Real Leader Preface I have always…

I’m working with a few leaders in both large and small organizations – who are passionate about creating inspired workplaces. They aren’t sure how to do it.  They aren’t sure people will respond favorably.  They aren’t sure it will work at all. They want to break the unspoken, unwritten rules of organizations that say… …that…

In my last post Do Some People Intimidate You?, I wrote about the phenomenon that grips most of us at one time or another, leading us to feel inadequate, uneasy and temporarily inept in the presence of certain people.  As I wrote in that article, through there are a number of circumstances that can trigger…

Most of us have people in our lives that for whatever reason lead us to temporarily lose access to our fully functioning brains.   You may find that in their presence, words suddenly escape you.  Or worse, they seem to pour out of you like diarrhea or projectile vomit, leaving you to feel even more uneasy. …

My last four posts, How to Change a Habit That is Hurting You, Part I, Part II,  Part III and Part IV were about the first four steps for changing a habit that is hurting you: (1)    Make a decision, a declaration and a commitment to yourself. (2)    Surround yourself with reminders of what you…

My last three posts How to Change a Habit That is Hurting You, Part I, Part II and Part III,  were about the first three steps for changing a habit that is hurting you: (1)    Make a decision, a declaration and a commitment to yourself. (2)    Surround yourself with reminders of what you are moving…

My last two posts, How to Change a Habit That is Hurting You, Part I and Part II were about the first two steps for changing a habit that is hurting you: (1)    Make a decision, a declaration and a commitment to yourself. (2)    Surround yourself with reminders of what you are moving toward. Maybe…

My last post, How to Change a Habit That Is Hurting You, Part 1 was about the first step for changing a habit that is hurting you:  make a decision, a declaration and a commitment to yourself. Today, we’ll tackle step two. STEP TWO:  Surround yourself with reminders of what you are moving toward. Though…