Has this happened to you? You’re leading a meeting. You’ve got 25 people scheduled to attend. (For simplicity, let’s assume all of your attendees are meeting in person together.) The meeting is supposed to start at 9 am. It’s pouring rain outside.At 8:58, you look around. Only 14 of the 25 people are in the … Read more
I’ve traveled to Europe twice in the last month: to France and Germany. Both times, I stayed in hotels with a master key. You can see it in the picture above. (This is from my hotel in Munich.) The master key works like this: when you get into your room, you put the … Read more
Emotional Intelligence. For more than a decade, it’s been shown time and again that Emotional Intelligence is a bigger predictor of success than education and skills. So why do so many emotionally stupid leaders still walk the earth? Last week, I was at a conference of a Fortune 50 company in the Energy Industry. Over 1,500 of their … Read more
An early Monday flight got me into a North Carolina hotel for a Tuesday program with free afternoon of time to get a few things done. That afternoon, I had three tasks on my list: Work out. Print a document that I had emailed to myself. Fax above document to a client at another location. In … Read more
Sometimes connections show up in the most unlikely of places. This past Saturday, my family played the chore game for the first time in a very long time. The chore game works like this: All of the household chores are written up on strips of paper. All the strips are put in a bucket. Each … Read more
