by Scott Anderson | Feb 20, 2014 | Leadership, Personal Enrichment, Workplace Issues
Take a second to scan the article below by Jamie Notter on culture and happiness. The tidal wave of books on “positive culture” might lead us to believe that it’s as simple as making employees happy. As though beer on tap in the lunch room is all it takes to be a...
by Scott Anderson | Sep 25, 2012 | Personal Enrichment
10 questions to consider before blowing UP, acting OUT or shutting DOWN. Most successful leaders function very well within a fairly broad range of circumstances. But some executives (most of us at one time or another) have limits beyond which we believe that...
by Scott Anderson | Jul 24, 2012 | Personal Enrichment
We’ve all heard the nagging voice at 3 a.m., warning us about the dire consequences of failing at the morning meeting. Or the one that reminds us for the millionth time how badly we screwed up yesterday’s presentation. Undetected self-sabotage impedes our ability to...
by Scott Anderson | Oct 10, 2011 | Personal Enrichment
Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen Jeff Dyer is the Horace Beesley Professor of Strategy at the Marriott School, Brigham Young University; Hal Gregersen is a professor of leadership at INSEAD Learn How to Think Different(ly) Innovators (of new businesses, products,...
by Scott Anderson | Aug 15, 2011 | Personal Enrichment
Callings is an essay by John O’Donohue, from “To Bless The Space Between Us”*. *I have taken the liberty of editing Mr. Donohue’s great writing for length, but encourage you to buy his book and read the unabridged version. “…to learn how to become...
by Scott Anderson | Aug 5, 2011 | Personal Enrichment
The only thing we really have to fear. Less than 10% of our fears* ever occur, according to expert, Susan Jeffers, Ph.D. Yet many of us waste hours, years, even entire lifetimes, worrying about the 90% that never happens. If there was ever something to be afraid of,...
