The book “Shine: 10 Disciplines for Maximizing Your Energy, Impact, and Inner Peace,” is the latest passion project from Gino Wickman, and this time, he partnered with Rob Dube, who has been a client of Gino’s for years and is a very successful entrepreneur. If you...
Scott Patchin
IDS Like a Rock Star
Problem solving as a leadership team is the one of the most important skills you can build because the organization needs you to do it so the issues that get identified during your EOS® journey get solved. It is also critical as you cascade your L10 meetings that you...
Especially for Visionaries: 3 Things to Watch and Listen for Now
Your team needs you to help them make some critical shifts In the last 3 months I have found myself repeating the same question: When you look around the organization do you see the team playing more defense or offense? One thing I have observed in some organizations...
Integrators – One Tip for Strengthening EOS® In Your Business
Consider using EOS® Software I recently got some feedback from a couple integrators that using an EOS specific software has helped them immensely in their EOS launch, and some challenged me on why I don’t encourage new clients to consider implementing it when they...
EOS®: Especially for Integrators – 1 Nugget
1 Nugget from the EOS Conference Your busy, so let me keep this brief and focused. . . . Last week I attended the 100% virtual EOS Conference and it was great. More to come next month from the speakers and sessions, but I wanted to share one thing with...
5 Tips for Building Resilience (and we are all going to need more of it)
I am not an infectious disease specialist or an economist, but I am confident in predicting that our current challenges will require us to have resilience. The thing I have learned about resilience is you either have it or you have to build it. The only reason I don’t...
Honest Listening: What Peter says and one practice
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.Peter Drucker When she walked into my office, she was clearly nervous. We had worked together for six months. In the next five minutes, she shared a very personal medical condition, how the treatment...
Honest Listening: The data behind psychological noise, and 1 experiment
I was listening to a speaker recently who shared some startling statistics on our brain activity: We all have 50,000 to 70,000 thoughts per day95 - 98% are the same we had the day before So I tried an experiment: at the end of every day, I wrote down the thoughts that...
Honest Listening
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.Stephen R. Covey I heard this quote a couple of weeks ago and for the first time I understood. I have carried it around as a lens for myself for the last few weeks and it has...
Honesty Quote
I believe leaders need to learn/relearn how to express love to their people so they feel it. Here is a quote that should make you think about love and honesty.
Strategic Time: Are you at 10%?
Be honest – how many times a month do you sit in meetings with your peers and leave feeling energized, focused, and supported? Strategic time for leaders is critical, and yet the exception rather than the rule in my experience leading and coaching leaders.
Lessons in Honesty: My Menlo Tour
Recently I took advantage of a culture tour of Menlo Innovations in Ann Arbor. While I have been on the tour seven times over the past seven years, I always leave with a key lesson or two that I can practice in my own work. This time the word radical hit me as I...