by Scott Anderson | Oct 19, 2016 | Essential Reading, Personal Enrichment, Uncategorized
An old friend used to say, “You get on base, then you get off base, then you get on base, then you get off base.” This can apply to so many things besides baseball: Professional growth, personal relationships, physical or mental health—pretty much anywhere you might...
by Scott Anderson | Oct 12, 2016 | Coaching, Personal Enrichment, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
Anyone who knows me probably also knows I’m a huge fan of mindfulness and meditation. I started meditating years ago and can’t say enough about the benefits for both my personal and professional life. It is no secret that the business world...
by Scott Anderson | Oct 5, 2016 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Personal Enrichment, Workplace Issues
A while back I wrote about the fallacy that overwork meant better work. More and more, people in the business world are beginning to recognize that working 60 and 70 and 80 hours a week is not a virtue. Rather, it reveals certain weaknesses in the worker. While there...
by Scott Anderson | Sep 29, 2016 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture
There’s an interesting article over at the Harvard Business Review, “When Networking, Being Yourself Really Does Work.” It covers a wide array of networking opportunities, from a job fair to LinkedIn. “Across all these situations, one...
by Scott Anderson | Sep 14, 2016 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Personal Enrichment, Playing Big
I love the term “Misery Olympics” and wish I’d thought of it first. Google it and you’ll get about 549,000 results, but who has time to get to the bottom of that rabbit hole? We all watched the Olympics in Brazil last month, but the Misery Olympics never end—they go...
by Scott Anderson | Sep 8, 2016 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Uncategorized
Back in June, I promised an interview with Dave Nelson, founder of SecretPenguin and Undivided. He’s extremely busy, so I’m grateful he could take the time to validate what I’ve been going on about all summer. For nine years, SecretPenguin has been a successful brand...
by Scott Anderson | Aug 31, 2016 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Leadership, Playing Big
Coach Ben Ryan is this ultra-gingery London guy: red hair, red face, red beard. He’d been the coach of Great Britain’s sevens rugby team, but they fired him about four years ago. It was humiliating to get dumped. In a kind of self-exile, Ben took a job in...
by Scott Anderson | Aug 24, 2016 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Playing Big
When it comes to business advice, I can never get enough of the Oracle of Omaha. That’s right, it’s time for another Buffett-based blog. This fits in nicely with what I’ve been talking about all summer and is really a continuation of the niche (and...
by Scott Anderson | Aug 18, 2016 | Personal Enrichment, Playing Big
I’ll just say it—I’m a sucker for reinvention stories. I love to see emails like the one I received yesterday from my friend Kris Kluver. This guy is your classic entrepreneur and really embodies the spirit of adventure. He started the first of 14 companies when he...
by Scott Anderson | Aug 10, 2016 | Leadership, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
The idea that the annual performance review is frequently inaccurate, inefficient, and counterproductive is nothing new. So why is it considered news when a corporation abandons it for something better? Last year, Jathan Janove wrote in Business Management Daily...
