The business best seller list, complete with extensive advice to first discover your strengths, while you go from good to great, and build yourself to last, might tempt you to think leveraging strengths will be enough to ensure your success. It won’t. Certainly, to be world class at anything, you have to start with rawRead more
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In a previous newsletter I advised “Beware snakes in suits.” I suggested you have two alternatives: get away from snakes or get bitten. I stand by that advice. However, as alert readers notified me, sometimes these options don’t exist. The snake happens to share DNA, family associations, or leadership positions. Sometimes you don’t want aRead more
How often have we heard, “Our people are our greatest asset”? The facts tell a different story. Only some people are true assets. These people will make the difference between surviving and thriving-between outrunning your competition and tripping at the finish line. Yet, most companies continue to struggle in their attempts to identify and developRead more
In my more than thirty years of consulting, I have found that, without question, natural intelligence is the most important success indicator in the business arena and the single most significant differentiator at the upper echelons of large organizations. Stanford psychologist Lewis Terman recognized this when he pioneered his IQ tests in the early 1900s.Read more
Clearly, the world needs more virtuosos, but they don’t seem to spring forth, fully formed from the La Brea Tar Pits. Nature or nurture, something happens early in life to cause these exceptional creatures to roam the earth. To better understand the process, I recently interviewed former Space Shuttle Commander and retired United Space AllianceRead more
