When I think about goal setting from a holistic perspective, Zig Ziglar’s wheel of life concept seems to be best. When I’m honest with myself, I’m not really a holistic goal setter. I find it easier to set two types of goals: Business or career goals and fitness goals. Zig’s approach helps me see that in many areas of my life that are important to me- like my spiritual life and my relationship with my friends and my husband- I’m very haphazard instead of intentional. The spokes of the wheel are: Career Financial Spiritual Physical Intellectual Family Social The approach
I don’t know about you, but there has been a lot of football on at our house over the holiday break. So much so, that as I was putting up Christmas decorations on Monday, I was silently cussing the college football season wishing my husband would get off the couch and help instead of watching more of what seems to be an endless bowl season. Then I hear him say, “WHAT?!?!” and turn up Gameday. “Babe,” he yells, “He fired Kiffin.” “He’s (Nick Saban) is about to come on live, you gotta come listen to this.” Despite my frustration, I
2016 showed us, at least in terms of the popularity of blog posts, that it was a year of innovation. More than half of our top 10 blog posts for the year focused on innovation in the workplace: You Can Hire for Fit AND Diversity: How the Most Innovative Companies Hire The Name of the Game is FREEDOM: How Innovative Companies Motivate, Get, and Retain the Best… Innovate or Die? And the Best Places to Work Rules to Preserve Freedom and Culture: How Innovative Companies Go about Rule-Making How Neuroscience Is and Will Revolutionize HR Others that came
On November 20th, in wind gusts up to 45 mph, we finished the Philadelphia Marathon. All five of us. Our times ranged from 4 hours 21 minutes to 4 hours 55 minutes, but we all crossed the finish line with a smile. In taking the journey this fall through the parallels drawn from running and leading well, it really all boils down to these few things: 1. Have a meaningful goal and motivation towards that goal. 2. Have a plan to meet that goal; chunk your tasks into manageable pieces to achieve the goal. 3. There is no elevator to success; you have
Innovation is a buzzword in business now. In a fast-paced world where change and adapting is necessary in order to survive in business, innovation seems to be what all people want to point to that keeps companies alive. “Innovate or die” we hear. But is it worth all the hype? Despite the fact that I often hate cliché words or phrases (don’t ask me about what I think about the word “synergy”, for example), I’m on the innovation bandwagon. I believe in today’s business world it truly is what separates the winners from the losers. And you can see why