What’s stopping you from achieving your goals – will or skill? Many people would say skill e.g. “I really want to do that, but I don’t know how.” This is no longer true. There are so many sources of information now (YouTube, Reddit, ChatGPT, blogs) that will tell you how to do anything you can…
Month: October 2024
Lila Cantor, CPCC, ACC’s podcast, Confidently Own Your Narrative, is such a good match for my perspective that You Have A Choice.
Lila Cantor, CPCC, ACC’s podcast, Confidently Own Your Narrative, is such a good match for my perspective that You Have A Choice. The narrative we tell about ourselves and the identities we present are choices we can make consciously or unconsciously. When we are making them unconsciously, we keep living out the same narratives because…
Failure is how you grow.
Failure is how you grow. This is a lesson I first learned from my mentor Jon Williams many years ago. We were reflecting on my most recent job at the time, and he asked me about the big mistakes I’d made. I proudly said “I didn’t make mistakes – I did what I was told…
Find your own path.
Find your own path. As the self proclaimed Unrepentant Generalist, I naturally was excited to talk to Jolie Downs on her Career Wanderlust podcast to share my experiences. American culture tends to treat careers as races where getting “there” fastest is the goal, where “there” might be a promotion, a title, a net worth number…
What do you do when circumstances change?
What do you do when circumstances change? Seth Godin laid out four choices in his post yesterday on Facing the Future at https://lnkd.in/d5vBQGRN 1) Deny that the world is changing. 2) Give up and shut down and stop trying. As he puts it, “embrace our perceived powerlessness”. 3) Control, which he describes as demanding that…
I enjoyed talking with Adelina Chalmers today about the executive mindset. We had a wide-ranging conversation but we summarized our main takeaways at the end of how to think like an executive:
I enjoyed talking with Adelina Chalmers today about the executive mindset. We had a wide-ranging conversation but we summarized our main takeaways at the end of how to think like an executive: 1) It’s about company results. It doesn’t matter how well your function does if the company doesn’t succeed. That means business thinking: how…
Why don’t we learn new skills?
Why don’t we learn new skills? I’ve been reflecting on this question recently after reading a couple posts on how people learn most effectively. 1:1 tutoring seems to be orders of magnitude more effective, as does developing the physical skill of training one’s intuition. It used to be that information was the limiting factor in…
I’m looking forward to this conversation with Adelina Chalmers this Monday, October 7th, on what I have been calling the executive mindset, the shift to focus on developing others rather than on doing the work yourself.
I’m looking forward to this conversation with Adelina Chalmers this Monday, October 7th, on what I have been calling the executive mindset, the shift to focus on developing others rather than on doing the work yourself. Sign up below to attend live, and add questions to the event (or comment below) if you have something…
Action leads to learning, not thinking.
Action leads to learning, not thinking. We often believe that the best way to figure out what to do next is to think about it. But that assumes we have all the information we need to make the best decision, which is almost never the case. When I was leaving grad school, I told a…