


The Problem of Positive Thinking
One of the biggest myths of high performance is that positive thinking is a positive thing.
While it might get you to mediocrity, positive thinking often gets in the way of high performers…

Saved by Belief
It’s no secret I am a student of high performance and high performers. So recently, when I got tickets to attend a taping of Oprah’s LifeClass, with Oprah and Joel Osteen, I was really excited. It was another opportunity to study not one, but two, high performers. In the two hours they were on stage they both said a lot of things that were amazingly valuable to the audience. Heck, they were valuable to me, but they weren’t about high performance…

Breaking News: Those Goals Aren’t Goals
As you can imagine, I spend a lot of time talking to people about what they want to accomplish. In fact, after 14 years of talking to people about their goals, I have learned that what most people think are goals are something else…

Pain or Pain?—You Choose
Life is painful. There, I said it.
Every day we have some sort of pain that shows up: emotional, physical, mental, something. Consequently, we spend much of our time running from pain. We hire therapists, life and business coaches, or consultants to help us figure out how to get out of pain and stay there…

Five Stupid Things Smart Leaders Say
If you lead people, you have one of the toughest jobs in the…

The High Cost of Getting Your Foot in the Door
Recently a colleague called me to ask for some help figuring…


Hey Coach, Are You Coachable?
I spend a lot of time talking about the fact that leaders need to have a great set of coaching tools in their tool box.
But what about leaders being coached?
Most of my colleagues would agree that the quality of the coaching a person is able to deliver has a direct correlation to how coachable they are.


