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Mindful Mondays | 09.26.2016

Three Life Lessons from Vin and Arnie

Two legends said goodbye yesterday. At age 88, Vin Scully, after 67 seasons in the booth, called his last home game for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Like the closing scene of a movie, the boys in blue clinched the NL West in the bottom of the 10th with a walk…

Mindful Mondays | 09.19.2016

Make Time For Now

Last Friday afternoon I decided to retreat into my shell. Earlier in the day, I had a really disappointing business call in which I felt a lot of work that I had poured my heart and soul into was unappreciated. As I usually do when I’m in town, I headed…

Mindful Mondays | 09.12.2016

How Much Time Do You Need to Not Feel Stupid?

Last week I was on the phone with an executive coaching client who, like many of the people I work with, was lamenting the insanity of her schedule. It was Friday and she was finishing up a week of back-to-back meetings every day, all day. (To her credit, she kept…

Leadership | 08.09.2016

How to Prepare for Your Meetings Like Olympians Prepare to Compete

Last night, Diane and I were watching the U.S. women’s gymnastics team compete in the opening round of competition in the Rio Olympics. The floor exercises were the most astounding thing I saw. Tiny young women like Simone Biles, Laura Hernandez, and Aly Raisman stand at one corner of a…

Next Level Podcast | 08.03.2016

How to Break the Trust Barrier

There’s trust and then there’s trust. Sure, you and your team need to trust each other to achieve results over the long run, but you’re likely not working together at supersonic (and I mean that literally) speed to achieve peak performance. JV Venable has led teams that perform at supersonic…

Mindful Mondays | 07.18.2016

Resting and Digesting in a Beautiful Place or Wherever You Are

A fight or flight response chronically stuck in the on-position can lead to poor performance, bad decision making, and serious health issues that can shorten your life expectancy. The good news is that, in addition to a sympathetic nervous system, we're all equipped with a parasympathetic nervous system. The nickname…

Mindful Mondays | 06.20.2016

The Secrets of a 30-Year Partnership Revealed

So, it was back in March of 1985 when I was dared to ask Diane Dougherty out on a date. She worked in an office across the hall from mine in a Washington, DC trade association. It was my first real job out of college and she was an intern…

Mindful Mondays | 06.06.2016

Mindful Mondays: How to Silence Your Itty Bitty Committee

A while back, I was coaching an executive who found herself getting emotionally hijacked. Like a lot of executives in large organizations, her job required her to work cross-functionally with lots of different people. That kind of work environment leads to lots of conversations, meetings, e-mail threads, presentations and the…

Mindful Mondays | 05.23.2016

Mindful Mondays: Five Reasons You Should Rip the Band-Aid Off Fast

Unless you have a bit of a sociopathic tendency (and none of my readers do!), you probably don’t enjoy delivering bad news. It could be announcing that the quarterly numbers aren’t on target, letting someone know that they underperformed, admitting that you made a mistake or telling someone that they…

Mindful Mondays | 05.16.2016

A 90-Year-Old’s Ten Rules for a Healthy and Happy Life

One of the more revealing regular features in The New York Times is a little story they run each week called Sunday Routine. In it, someone, usually famous or notable in some way, walks the reader through what a typical Sunday in New York City is like for them. Quite…