I’ve written multiple articles about how company policies favor the company that wrote them and not-so-much for their customer, but official corporate policies don’t just hobble the ability for a company to earn customer loyalty externally — they are also handcuffing creativity internally. Is your company policy handcuffing creativity and punishing people who are pushing […]
You’re probably familiar with the idiom “like a deer in headlights”, a phrase used to describe someone who is paralyzed by surprise or fear. Just like actual deer that tend to freeze in place when illuminated by the lights of an oncoming vehicle, people are dumbstruck in a similar way when surprised by unexpected news, […]
If you had to make a list of all the things you did today that helped move you closer to your big goals — could you do it? I don’t mean a list of just anything you did today, I’m talking about a list of well-considered tasks that were strategically executed on purpose in order […]
You don’t become the best at something by playing at a basic level against basic competition your entire career. If you want to be the best guitar player you don’t stop challenging yourself after you learn three chords. If you want to be the best chess player, you don’t play people who are not as […]
As humans, I believe we have a high tolerance level for monkey business. We put up with a lot of nonsense (just look at the recent election if you need proof!) and still manage to make steady progress forward, albeit sometimes at a much slower pace. Too much monkey business in the office means you […]
Fear can be a project stopper. There are many different types of fear that people allow to prevent them from taking action on ideas, but the people who are unable to define the exact thing(s) they’re afraid of I chalk up to being afraid of The Big Bad Wolf. The Big Bad Wolf is the […]
I’m a big believer in finding scary monsters to slay. The most dangerous dragons guard the greatest treasure (the dragons are there to helps us see how much we really want the treasure), but sometimes the big scary monsters are really just cuddly little cutie-pies — and the dangerous dragon might just turn out to […]