Attention with Intention - If you continue to have negative feelings toward another person on the team—that is, you’re sure that other person is “the problem”—then you’re falling into a pattern of ignorance and self-defeating thinking that many of us fall into. It’s a pattern that keeps us from... more
The Sigmoid Growth Curve: Challenge and Assurance - Every new life, every new organization, project, initiative, or relationship starts out falteringly at inception. Then it grows, enters a mature stage, and finally declines and perishes. If that were all there were to this concept, it would be pretty depressing. What makes it positive... more
Collaboration: A Better Way of Working - While many of the old established strategies and negotiation processes are indeed “the norm,” they are also tragically dysfunctional and counterproductive. They squander precious resources and are among the primary causes of failure of all kinds in non-profits, businesses, governments, civic organizations, and families. But since they are the strategies and processes used for years by business leaders, politicians, parents, and other people we have looked up to or viewed as successful, we tend not to question them... more
Twenty Strategies for More Successful Interactions - Make it a point to respond to people’s attitudes and behaviors rather than to react. Remember that your reactions to other people and situations say volumes more about you than they do about those other people or situations... more |
