Great Circle

Let’s face it Boss/Manager/Leader, your time is valuable … and so is that of your staff.
Before you go dragging busy people into another team meeting, ask yourself these questions:

Is there actually a more effective delivery system for the information I want to pass on?
Is there too much talk and not enough action in my department or office? How’s [...]

80% of Companies Won’t Fail in 5 Years – Do you own a start-up business and hear the horror stories and statistics that tell you you’re probably doomed? Think again…
Operation Order – a terrific lesson from the US Army on effective event planning for the frazzled leader.
The Benefit of Mistakes – a B&B owner takes a blogging-detour [...]

Remember when we were kids and ripping off that band-aid was such a trial? “I can’t do it: IT’S GONNA HURT!!!”
In my last Whetstone newsletter, I published a Laurie Beth Jones article on procrastination. In it, she made these points:
 We often choose the complicated ambling route … when if we just went straight at the challenges [...]

We were talking in the last post about this experience for 35-55 year olds of feeling numb, succumbing to the status quo, losing their edge, giving up on trying for an ideal life or world. I joked in the comments about future sociologists dubbing this experience Midlife Disaffected Syndrome – a better phrase (I thought [...]

Sitting with a coaching client yesterday, we got talking about one of the unhappy truths of midlife: the experience of becoming old enough to not strive anymore, of losing your passion (like your car keys), of giving up the Dream, of settling for the status quo (no not that crappy old band!). 
Not everyone experiences this, but sadly it happens to enough people [...]