From the always stimulating Bob Lefsetz – his main thing is music but the lessons apply to most businesses (including my own!) If you build it they will not come. Your challenge is getting noticed. So you may be sitting at home, in your beautiful house, with your beautiful wife, asking me…DIDN’T YOU SAY JUSTContinue reading “The Product Is Not Enough”
Category Archives: Coaching
The Weekend Read. Silence by Erling Kagge.
I thought I would start the New Year with a mention for this absolute gem of a book. It follows on beautifully from Deep Work and Solitude which I have mentioned before. I am grateful to my neighbours Walt and Ann from the other side of the hill here at ReesAcres for their recommendation. TheyContinue reading “The Weekend Read. Silence by Erling Kagge.”
The Monday Morning Quote #461
“It’s not how good you are now; it’s how good you’re going to be that really matters” Atul Gawande
The Science of Human Actions Reactions and Interactions – Kathy Kolbe meets Joe Polish
WATCH: Kathy Kolbe sits down with Joe Polish to talk about human instinct and having the freedom to be yourself.
The Weekend Read – 20,000 Days and Counting by Robert D. Smith
The concept of this book is simple, instead of living your life in years, as most of us do, measure it in days. On the 20,000th day of his life the author decided to test the concept and planned his next 20,000 days. Written to be read quickly because, as he points out, “life isContinue reading “The Weekend Read – 20,000 Days and Counting by Robert D. Smith”
The Monday Morning Quote #418
“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people who are no smarter than you.” Steve Jobs
A Formula To Measure Likely Success
On a small scrap of paper is the wisdom that Peggy Collins from my Toastmasters Group shared with us last week. Mark yourself out of Ten for the Desire to achieve a goal and the Action you will take to reach it. Multiply to see the percentage chance of attaining it. No amount ofContinue reading “A Formula To Measure Likely Success”
The Weekend Read – Deep Work by Cal Newport
This is a “must read” for anyone who feels they are getting overwhelmed or even too distracted by 21st century life. Subtitled, “Rules for focus success in a distracted world” it does exactly what it says on the cover. I regularly hear complaints from my clients that they are having problems focussing on the mostContinue reading “The Weekend Read – Deep Work by Cal Newport”
The Monday Morning Quote #410
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Max Planck, German quantum theorist and Nobel Prize winner.
Kolbe – My Decade of Success – What’s Your Kolbe?
It’s nearly ten years since I completed my Kolbe Accreditation, since then I have shared the my knowledge with hundreds of individuals and helped many teams understand how instinct is so important in knowing themselves and their teams. So over the next few weeks I am revisiting some articles that I wrote back then. What’sContinue reading “Kolbe – My Decade of Success – What’s Your Kolbe?”
The Incisal Edge 