It’s another Monday and I’m sure everyone is feverishly assaulting the work week already. I’m with you – it’s going to be busy today and the rest of the week. But maybe I did something you didn’t recently and that may make a difference in how we fare the rest of the week. Not a bad management lesson as well. Continue reading
Tag Archives: life
Monkey Mind
We were talking the other morning on the golf course about settling our minds. One of the folks with whom I play will often stand over a shot for 20 seconds (I’m not exaggerating) before starting his swing. I asked him, as we rode around, what was going through his mind. He just grinned and shook his head and said “I don’t even know – it all comes so fast.”
I know exactly what he meant. My friends have, from time to time, called me “Sybil” on the golf course after the book and movie about a woman who has multiple personalities – she hears lots of different voices in her head. The reality is that both my playing partner and I have monkey minds and there’s the business lesson. Continue reading
Filed under Reality checks, Thinking Aloud
Winning Fair
I’m really sorry the World Cup is over. It’s amazing to me how the intensity of the event starts out at a high level and just keep growing, reaching its apex during the final, as it did yesterday. Two sides determined to win at all costs and bring home glory. Ah, competition!
Any yet, in every World Cup game we get a business lesson when someone gets hurt. Continue reading
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