In our lives, multiple laws govern the outcomes we experience. The law of the vital few is the premise that there are only a few things we do that produce the majority of the outcomes we experience. The opposite is true as well. The law of the pointless many states that there are lots of things...

It doesn’t matter if you are talking about making your business better or your family better; getting traction can be tough. Traction is a reference to what it is like to work hard without moving forward versus working hard while moving forward. One of the common mistakes we make is to...

Each of us creates a rhythm for our life. This rhythm is the pattern of habits we create that end up running our lives. These patterns can be altered anytime we desire. However, most people simply accept the rhythm given to them through their conditioning. When we are young, we see examples of...

Trust is at the very foundation of leadership. For anyone in a leadership role for more than a minute, you recognize that your primary job is to get others to want to do what you want/need them to do. This idea of moving people toward a stronger sense of internal motivation can be perplexing when...

I remember reading the book, The One Minute Manager Meets The Monkey, years ago. The book was a revisit to the Harvard Business Review article titled “Management Time: Who’s Got The Monkey.” The premise of the lesson was that each of us is faced with making decisions about the...