After reading Crucial Conversations a couple months ago I wanted to also read Vital Smarts’ Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior. It used to be called Crucial…
Tag: Development
Quick Review: The Coaching Habit
As I continue to read various things on coaching, I read Michael Bungay Stanier’s The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever. The book is a fairly…
Quick Review: Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World
It’s one of my commitments every year, while I’m in the small kid stage of parenting to read a parenting book. I have tended to satisfy this goal of mine through general…
Self-Leadership: The Adventure of Spoon Collecting
If your self-leadership development efforts were illustrated through spoons on a wall, what would it look like? Would you have many spoons…or two…or maybe just one? My mom has always had a…
Stats Lie Pt 5: Stats, Shine, & Speed
We’re all attracted to shiny objects. Some things just draw attention because they stand out and are a bit more flashy than others. This phenomenon shows up in measurements too – some…
Maturity is Contextual
Have you felt like there were some situations or places where you really felt like you were growing? Strong, healthy, empowered? And then maybe you also find yourself in other situations or…
Leadership That Knows What You CAN’T Do
I heard an interview a few days ago from the NFL world that I found to be a clear and insightful description of leadership in helping others succeed. Former All-Pro receiver Cris…
Quick Thoughts on Young @ Heart
How often do you think about the elderly? Now, if you are elderly – you may think about them a lot! I think it’s a reality that society has moved a direction…
Another Brief Review – Breaking Through to Teens
I’ll continue getting back into the swing of things on the blogfront with another book review. I had to recently read Breaking Through to Teens: Psychotherapy for the New Adolescence by Ron…