Your company’s real AI risk isn’t obsolescence. Neither is yours. It’s cognitive surrender.
Everyone got the AI dystopia wrong. We spent years preparing for Big Brother — the machine that surveils, records, and penalizes. We took courses, brought in experts, wrote policies, retained privacy…
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Most sales aren't lost because the product is inferior, or because the prospect doesn't want to buy. Most sales are lost because the salesperson walks into the room with the wrong story running in their head.
They're telling themselves things like: I don't know if I can do this anymore. They're just…
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A note for leaders who are holding everything together — and starting to wonder if they can.
He came into our first coaching session carrying something heavy.
Not a laptop. Not a notebook. The weight was invisible — but I could see it in the way he sat down. Slightly forward, like…
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Any time I'm recommended a book I read it. The latest was 4,000
Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. Having done many deep dives into the very idea of time, I found no new ahas, but many great reminders, and thoughts generated, that will allow you to be in control of your time:
Live…
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Much what much of what gets in the way of success is… us! Here a five emotional traps we should strive to avoid:
The desire to be comfortable– as Paulo Coelho said, “only the mediocre are ever truly comfortable". If your primary goal is to be comfortable then you can expect to get run over…
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AI Is Not Big Brother. It’s Your Big Mother.
The Story in Your Head Is Costing You the Sale
You Are Not Your Company’s Crisis
Any time I’m recommended a book I read it.
Five Emotional Traps that Get in the Way of Success