When I first started coaching college basketball, I did what any good daughter would do, I called my father and asked, “Dad, what offense should I run?” He said, “Honey, it doesn’t matter.” “What do you meant that it doesn’t matter?” “What matters is if you can get your team to run the offense.” So
Does being right make you happy? Does being right bring you more success? When I was a teenager, I thought I had to be right to be happy. Okay, I confess. It was something I believed until I was 45. When contemplating the need to be right, you might believe that you would never sacrifice happiness
You have heard the quote: “That is why you are getting paid the big bucks.” Leaders often receive this answer when they complain about challenging decisions as if getting paid more money makes the ethical dilemma easier. Last week, when speaking on the social media platform, Club House, I heard an interesting idea around ethical
GAINING POWER CAN LEAD TO LOSING VALUES In the past few weeks, we have witnessed government leaders who have lied, betrayed, and twisted the truth for their own gain. I would love to say that this is the first time I have witnessed such behavior, but it is not,
I am the first to admit that the leadup and days prior to the Presidential Election brought me great anxiety. I fretted, agonized, lost sleep, drank wine, debated on Facebook, and worst of all told my mother that she was voting for the wrong candidate. I believed that if my candidate did not win
You cannot be an effective leader if you are dysfunctional everyplace else. When I was growing up, my coaches told me, “Leave your problems at the door.” No matter how much I wanted to please my coaches, I could not detach part of me and take the rest of me to practice. Believing you can
DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION STYLES Let us acknowledge that women and men are different physically and emotionally, which is why they tend to lead in different manners. While nothing is absolute, there are definite tendencies according to gender. Men and women who have invested in personal development flatten the curve. The primary reason men communicate is to
Fear is created from past experiences. It is the perception of possible pain or history of pain revisited. During these times of the pandemic when uncertainty is prevalent, the more attention given to the possible but not yet inevitable, the greater your suffering. Fear cannot co-exist with faith. One or the other can exist,
During the past several weeks, the idea of moving forward is not in most people’s minds. Most people are in survival mode which prevents forward movement. Surviving might get you through COVID-19, but it won’t break the status quo. What is the difference? Surviving feels like resistance and stagnation. Avoidance and deflection are part of
What will our new normal look like? While we all love to get back to what we know, our world has changed, and it will not be the same. Which direction we will go is uncertain, but a group at Deliotte Consulting and Salesforce theorized four predictions. Our health care and political systems mount increasingly
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