This week’s external resource isn’t what I set out to find. After checking Wharton’s Knowledge@Wharton, I went to my trusty stand-by: the HBR Blogs.
But even there I didn’t find what I had initially sought: something by Umair Haque or Tony Schwartz.
Instead, I found this great article by Judith Glaser. As soon as she mentioned cortisol and the limbic brain I was hooked.
I hope you find the article useful and interesting.
I recently read a great article from Robert Hargrove (a world-class executive coach) on why corporate professionals should go for “mastery” over “competence.” It’s such a great article I wanted to share the link with you; for your development (and path to mastery)!
Did that get your attention? I’m not doing any resolutions this New Year. They don’t work. But what does work? That’s a great question.* * * * * One that I work on all the time.
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. – Winston Churchill Sure, this quote is dripping with sarcasm and is both clever and funny, but it raises an important point (by way of absurdity . . . ): How tactful are you?…
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. – J. Sidlow Baxter This week has been a bit about language and meaning so I had* to share this quote. A key question is: what is our attitude towards…
If being hard on yourself was going to work, it would have worked by now. – Jamie Smart This reminds of something I’ve heard: if you talked to other people the way you (sometimes) talk to your self, you’d have no friends. Sometimes people think that if they’re easy on themselves they won’t accomplish anything. That…
The world is full of people who want to change, who say they need to change, but remain stuck.* I look at one of those people in the mirror every day. The above chart illustrates someone who says his Ideal Weight is one number and, yet,…