This is my last Leading Thoughts for 2017 and I want to talk to you a bit about your perspective on 2018. In the coming weeks, you will likely be thinking over the new year, dreaming a bit and setting goals. I believe this is an immensely important process, not [read more]
I want to talk to you in this Leading Thoughts about your leadership diet, and I want to be very practical. In the same way that elite athletes must feed themselves differently from non-athletes in order to perform well, leaders must feed for success too. They have to be intentional about what [read more]
It was George Orwell who first coined the term “groupthink” in his disturbing novel 1984. In this one word he captured the dangers and dysfunctions that can deform the thinking of a group. It would help us to apply this term to our lives. Orwell intended “groupthink” to describe the hyper-conformity, manufactured [read more]
You become what you behold. This is a basic truth of psychology. It is also a principle in most religions. Most of us learn it from sports or from human achievement studies. You become what you behold. What you put before your eyes shapes a good part of what you [read more]