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Cool Leadership in a Hot Place
My colleague looked at me through the dusty haze of 105 degree heat, smiled, and stated: “There is nothing like the California High Desert in the middle of August to stimulate thinking about...
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“Doing” and “Being” a Leader: Not the Same Thing
George, one of the best trainers in our organization, often begins his classes with a very interesting introduction – He calls it 5-7-10. He asks participants in our leadership classes to think back to...
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Flight Attendants Have it Right
Yes, we never listen to them anymore before the plane takes off. But, they do have it right. You have to put the oxygen mask on yourself first, before you can help other people. Same thing goes for...
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Using the Motivational Triad to Exercise More Consistently, Part 1: Make it...
In the book, The Pleasure Trap, authors Drs. Lisle and Goldhammer talk about a triad that helps explain what drives and has driven human behavior over the centuries. The triad quite simply is this: as...
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Using the Motivational Triad to Exercise More Consistently, Part 2: Avoid Pain
In Part 1 of this series, we explored how the Motivational Triad described in the book The Pleasure Trap has driven the way humans have made decisions since the beginning of their existence. The triad...
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Using the Motivational Triad to Exercise More Consistently, Part 3: Energy...
Welcome to Part 3 of our series on exercising more consistently using the principles of the Motivational Triad, as described in the book The Pleasure Trap. The Motivational Triad states that all...
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Using the Motivational Triad to Eat Healthier
How many of you have a love/hate relationship with food? You know you need to eat more fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes. You know you should eat less pizza, ice cream, dessert, burgers,...
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Using the Motivational Triad to Eat Healthier, Part 2: Seeking Pleasure
In case you missed Part 1, click here. Eating is pleasurable. And nature intended it that way. The hunger response (pain) and the enjoyment associated with eating has kept us alive and thriving as a...
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Using the Motivational Triad to Eat Healthier, Part 3: Avoiding Pain
None of us wants to be in poor health, overweight and unfit. We all want to have good energy, be trim and feel good. I have yet to come across anyone who doesn’t care about their health, at least on...
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My Top 3 Leader Resolutions for 2013
Like many people, I use the entry into a new year as a time to assess what I am grateful about and to make proclamations about what I’d like to do differently this year. Here are my top three leader...
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Using the Motivational Triad to Eat Healthier, Part 4: Energy Efficiency
For earlier posts in this series, click the following: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. One misconception people have is that eating healthy takes more time and effort. Ok, I will concede that in some ways...
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Parenting, Parents and Letting Go of Great Expectations
It was about a week before I was to leave on an assignment to teach in France for two weeks. Initially my family was going to join me in Paris for one of the two weeks. I would teach in the mornings,...
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What exactly is work life balance anyway?
Every time I read about or hear someone talk about work life balance, I get a scary mental image of myself standing in front of scales similar to the ones Lady Justice holds that require equal weights...
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Corporate Officer: A Job that Kills?
The well-paid world of corporate officers is ruthlessly transparent, and the rules of the game are clear: deliver and you will be rewarded; fail and you will be blamed. After the crisis of 2008 and...
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Forget Work-Life Balance; Strive for Work-Life Integration
Do you see “work” and “life” as an either/or? My vision isn’t work-life balance; it’s work-life integration. Sometimes I work on weekends. Sometimes I do personal stuff during the “work day.” The ideal...
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I’ll take care of you when you are old
This July, my parents came to visit and stayed with me in Singapore for almost a month. During their stay, besides spending as much time as possible with them after office hours, I took several days...
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Is Work-Life Balance a Zero-Sum Game?
“So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance,” says Sheryl Sandberg. Everything we do boils down to choices we make. Should I spend my evening...
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Why Using the F-word at Work is a Good Thing
Most people want to say it. And at some point in their careers they probably need to say it. Rather than holding back – say it. In fact, shout it. Because it’ll do you good, and research increasingly...
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Work-Life Unbalanced? Try Work-Life Harmony
I was on the driving range, really struggling with my golf swing. Usually when that happens, it’s because I’m not balanced at the finish. I’ve come to know that about myself. But then, when I really...
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Lean in: But into What?
If you’ve opened a magazine, looked at a news site, or turned on the TV in the last year, you’ve probably seen Sheryl Sandberg. In her book Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead she did what...
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