While delivering a seminar earlier this month, I overheard this conversation unfold between two managers in the front row: "I can’t put off the decision any longer—I have to give the president an answer tomorrow about taking over the operations in Germany.""I don’t know why you’d turn it down! It would be a great experience [...]
I leave this afternoon (Friday) on a trip to Washington, DC, to deliver six speeches in four days at the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) Academy and the SHRM 2006 Annual Conference and Exposition. If you plan to attend these SHRM events Saturday-Tuesday, please try to drop by one of my sessions and say [...]
Do you work for someone else? Unless you’re self-employed, getting along with your boss is a daily consideration. Here are three pet peeves that surface often in my discussions with executives—issues that separate the star performers from those who will be passed over for promotion once again. 1) Rambling, pointless emails:Get to the point. That’s [...]
The great philosopher Yogi Berra said, "You can observe a lot just by watching." If I could paraphrase Yogi’s quote and apply it to current events, it would go like this: “You can hear a lot just by listening.” If there were any doubters of that truism, all they had to do was flip through [...]
The Success and Training Network (TSTN) launched the first-of-a-kind satellite TV network this week to bring you 24-hour programming from some of the most popular thought leaders in the country: Tom Peters, Brian Tracy, Denis Waitley, Zig Ziglar, Connie Podesta, John Gray. You can find up-to-the minute information on a wide variety of topics, …get [...]
