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Exceleration

When you’re a highly motivated person who’s driven to achieve, you’re often looking for ways to accelerate your progress. Did you know you can also excel-erate the process? “Excel-eration” is the result when you achieve your vision faster, better, … Read More »

Balance the Cockpit

One time I was on a flight from L.A. to Santa Barbara. As we ducked into the tiny puddle-jumper – not at all the jetliner I was expecting – the flight attendants eyed our gear and directed us to put our carry-on luggage on either the left side or the … Read More »

Abandon Your Team

It’s a common recommendation for leaders to have a high quality team. But the concept of a team can be quite limiting for leaders who want to really get ahead. While a team can certainly be helpful, the real breakthroughs come when you turn your team into a … Read More »

The Control Room

One morning as the anchors of the Today show discussed a breaking human interest story, weatherman Al Roker kept throwing in remarkably relevant statistics and factoids. At one point, the anchors turned to Roker and ribbed him about his superhuman knowledge. … Read More »

The Imaginary Advisory Board

Imagine you had the best leaders in the world all advising you? You’d have access to the leaders who are most relevant to you now, who are experts in the kind of success you want to achieve and who have attained the highest respect and regard in their … Read More »