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If I win, does that automatically mean you lose?

Do you consider your people an asset like you do intellectual property? Or do you consider them an asset like you do a truck or a computer? How you consider your employees says a lot about how they are treated and how they should be treated. To bring you up to speed, here are the two arguments about how to consider employees.

I could not resist starting a blog on curiosity with the word “why.” It is the universal word for the curious. While there are other words for the curious, the word “why” it the first word used by everyone, probably starting at age 2. And most parents become tired of this word soon after that.

Do you collaborate? I don’t mean if you simply team with your co-workers from down the hall, but do you team with industry experts from outside your company to accomplish a common goal?

Are you comfortable with your level of business success? How about your cash flow? Your company’s productivity? Are you comfortable with your company’s reputation?

Your values are essential to effective leadership. They are the uncompromising, undebatable truths that drive and direct your behavior. Do you know your values?

I do not think there is a more over-used and meaningless phrase than economic uncertainty.

Authentic happiness, sound nice, doesn’t it? Your happiness depends on your inner state of consciousness. Your happiness does not depend on what you do, but it does depend on how you do it.

Do you ever let your mind wander? [Punchline] Sometimes it wanders so far it gets lost.

I recently listened to the 2017 commencement speech given by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ to his son’s ninth grade graduating class from Cardigan Mountain School. In this speech, Justice Roberts said. “When you get to your new school, walk up and introduce yourself to the person who is raking the leaves, shoveling the snow or emptying the trash. Learn their name and call them by their name during your time at the school.” Justice Roberts recognizes the importance of hidden ordinary work and the importance of the unseen people who make our lives all the more enjoyable.