Connected Leaders: Outer you, meet inner you.
Within a world where expectations of our performance and what we ought to be capable of are seemingly superhuman, there is a strong incentive to better manage our priorities in a way that allows our careers, our families and our goals operate in a healthier, enhanced and calmer way.
Mediocrity sucks. Here’s why you need to break out of the cycle…
If you thought failure was bad, you should give average a try. Because nothing sucks worse than being “meh”… Pity the long-suffering fans of the Dallas Cowboys. ‘America’s Team’ have finished each of the last three seasons with a thoroughly mediocre .500 record: eight wins, eight losses, each season neither triumph nor train wreck. They ...
Allowing meaning to guide you
Finding meaning is about paying attention to how you feel when you go about your daily activities and learning to understand what lifts you up or brings you down. The focus is to fill your life with experiences that constantly lift you up and raise your vibration. Finding your meaning is one way to experience contentment ...
The Art of Standing Out (Or Why Most Modern Marketing Sucks)
“Whatever you do, you need to stand out.” So says advertising legend Dave Trott. Why? Because it’s the only way to get noticed.
DreamWorks – Animation’s Most Diverse Studio
The cultural fit of any organization is often paramount to company success. When it comes to growth, new hires and talent management, ensuring that employees understand the culture of the organization, can make or break a company. And in a creative and collaborative effort, this is even more critical. Of course, diversity is equally important, ...
Leadership lessons from the Lions
A week is a long time in sport. Just a few days ago, British & Irish Lions supremo Warren Gatland was being pilloried by media and fans alike for his controversial call to drop Lions legend Brian O’Driscoll ahead of the team’s must-win showdown with Australia in Sydney on Saturday night, and pack the side ...
Lessons From: A Freediver
When was the last time you tried to hold your breath? In the bath? Driving through a tunnel? In the pool as a kid? Wherever it was, I bet you never managed to pop the three-minute bubble – let alone hit seven minutes and twenty-nine seconds. Why seven minutes and twenty-nine seconds? Because that’s where ...
Lessons From: A Stand-Up Comic
What do you call a man with no shins? Tony. That’s why I’m not a professional stand-up comic. Fortunately, with regular slots on BBC’s Radio 4 shows, sell-out tours across the UK to critical acclaim and a veritable treasure chest of TV appearances to force upon her grandchildren one day – we can safely assume ...
Retained IT needs a small nut. But that takes big balls.
Between April 2012 and April 2013, summit organizer GDS International gathered together 231 North American CIOs, vice presidents and IT directors for a collective 7.5 days of structured conversation, learning and networking. Last month, they handed MeetTheBoss TV the resultant data and asked us to write about it. You can download the full CIO U.S. IT ...