How to Strengthen an Essential Leadership Skill About 20 years ago, I was engaged in a discussion about Organization Savvy with an AutoNation senior executive. At one point he said to me, proudly, “My father was a walking lie detector”. He went on to explain how his father leveraged that skill to build a veryContinue reading “Sharpening Your “BS” Detector”
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Reading Tells
The Poker Skill that will Elevate Your Social IQ and Your Value to an Organization “Show me your eyes and you may as well show me your cards” – Doyle “Dolly” Brunson, Two Time World Poker Champ “People will TELL you how to Sell Them” – Tom Hopkins, Elite Sales Trainer The Golden Rule, “TreatContinue reading “Reading Tells”
Fully Identify Your Strengths and Potential:
The key to being confident, bold and finding your “sweet spot” in life (This article is dedicated to Herbert A. Otto, Ph.D., founder of the National Center for the Exploration of Human Potential) What percentage of the population has an accurate picture of their strengths? My estimate, after 50 plus years of focusing on thisContinue reading “Fully Identify Your Strengths and Potential:”
The Need for Approval
Finding the Right Balance in How Much You care About Other People’s Approval How concerned are you about other people’s judgements regarding your decisions, performance, or values? Their disapproval may matter to you more than you realize. Neuroscientists have pointed out that our brains are often “velco” for negatives and “teflon” for positives. For mostContinue reading “The Need for Approval”
Forgive and Forget
Deciding Whether to Forgive and Forget? Rebuild Trust? Resize the Relationship? Accurately predicting someone’s future behavior will help you make better choices In 1789, a year before he died, Benjamin Franklin wrote… “in this world nothing is certain but DEATH and TAXES”. I’m not sure his wisdom still holds for 2023 as currently thereContinue reading “Forgive and Forget”
Marty Seldman 