Category: Culture Shift

  • Why Partnerships Fail

    Why Partnerships Fail

    Why Partnerships Fail…And what we can do to prevent it 5 questions to ask yourself before your partnership is tanking Like marriage or dating relationships, business partnerships struggle and eventually fail for a variety of preventable reasons.  Did you catch that?  Preventable reasons. There are certain inescapable hardships that can crush any partnership [like a…

  • Managing an Underperformer in a Family Business

    Managing an Underperformer in a Family Business

    The Godfather is a crime novel written by American author Mario Puzo. Originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, the novel details the story of a fictional Mafia family based in New York City and Long Beach, New York. There are many invaluable life lessons to be gleaned from this trilogy masterpiece.  Among…

  • How to Deal with Critics

    How to Deal with Critics

    “It’s the echo that counts” We all hate it, and yet we are all guilty at times of doing it:  being a critic.  Sure, there is a time for constructive criticism – in fact – I am a HUGE fan!  But I am talking about taking cheap shots at others without taking time to understand…

  • A Man’s Vices

    A Man’s Vices

    What do you do when you feel like you are doing all the right things, actively engaged in a process of improvement for life, yet things are just not happening? I mentioned last time that it starts with a period of quiet reflection and asking yourself the question, “What is your vanity preventing you from…

  • Come at me, Bro

    Come at me, Bro

    What do you do when you feel like you are doing all the right things, actively engaged in a process of improvement for life, yet things are just not happening?  I mentioned last time that it starts with a period of quiet reflection and asking yourself the question, “Are you rushing an important process you are engaged in?”…

  • Who are You Crushing On?

    Who are You Crushing On?

    What do you do when you feel like you are doing all the right things, actively engaged in a process of improvement for life, yet things are just not happening?  I mentioned last time that it starts with a period of quiet reflection and asking yourself the question, “What is life teaching me?” [click link here] My response…

  • What is Life Teaching You?

    What is Life Teaching You?

    Questions to ask yourself when things don’t happen or stop happening. I’ve been beating the drum recently about calling others out of isolation and into the power of deep dive discussion.  It’s one thing to vent and spill your guts, but it’s an entirely different thing – actually a privilege – to have someone who…

  • An Added Dimension

    An Added Dimension

    Recently, I’ve pounded away at the real enemy that keeps a lot of us stuck. Call it arrogance, false humility, or ego – it all leads us in the opposite direction of our greatest good because WE CAN’T GET TO THE ANSWERS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO CREATE CHANGE. You may also recall Mandela’s profound quote…

  • My Biggest Weakness

    My Biggest Weakness

    I mentioned in part one of It’s Blowin’ Up that part of playing big is, ironically, getting rid of the part of us that keeps falsely big: the ego. Then I went on to say that ego technically isn’t the bad guy that corrupts our nature, but arrogance is. Of course, none of us would…

  • It’s Blowin’ Up

    It’s Blowin’ Up

    Bigger Than We Actually Are “Confidence is attractive, Arrogance is offensive.” I mentioned in part one of Stop playing it Small that part of playing big is, ironically, getting rid of the part of us that keeps falsely big: the ego. According to Freud’s model of the psyche, the id is the primitive and instinctual…