by Scott Anderson | May 3, 2017 | Essential Reading, Personal Enrichment, Playing Big, Uncategorized
How often have we heard that we need to have a five-year plan or a 10-year plan? Several things have occurred recently that made me think about why we wait. The rationale for waiting is typically completely made up. I started thinking about all the time I’ve...
by Scott Anderson | Apr 26, 2017 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
This is the final post on “What Not To Do And How Not To Do It” covering six of the biggest leadership mistakes and how to stop making them. Like the other negative behaviors we’ve discussed in the past several weeks, a bad attitude can manifest in many...
by Scott Anderson | Apr 12, 2017 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
This post covers the fourth of six leadership mistakes and how to fix them. In the past few weeks, we’ve covered excuse-making, bad manners, and ego problems; now it’s time to talk about lying. When people are found out as liars, the word spreads like wildfire. This...
by Scott Anderson | Dec 21, 2016 | Essential Reading, Playing Big, Uncategorized
A version of this post originally appeared in Omaha Magazine’s Fall, 2016, Women in Business issue. As my regular readers know, I successfully completed a work-from-abroad experiment this last summer. It was by far the most satisfying “put your money where...
by Scott Anderson | Nov 25, 2016 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Leadership
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude. Peter L. Berger It would be disingenuous to say that the...
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...
