Aug 30, 2011

The KEY: The Decision-Making Blind Spots

What crucial decisions have you recently made? Are you a clear and effective decider? In this KEY we look at the first five blind spots and mistakes people make when approaching decisions. Please print out and keep this KEY to create a conversation with your family and with your team about the decision-making blind spots. By teaching and coaching these to others you will improve...

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Jul 28, 2011

The KEY: Unbroken – An Improbable Odyssey

Everyone else on the flight was asleep. It’s a smart way to adjust to the time change from Seattle to Tokyo. But I could not sleep. The improbable survival story of Zamperini kept me awake. I looked outside at the distant ocean from 38,000 feet and imagined Zamperini and his pilot Phil floating on a small punctured raft, surrounded by sharks, drifting for 47 days,...

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Jun 28, 2011

The KEY: The 10 Wheels of Innovation

These are remarkable times. Hope and despair, triumph and defeat, light and darkness, all get closer and closer to each other. Success and failure, breakthrough and breakdown, increasingly appear just a nano-milimeter or nano-second away from each other. This KEY traces the Ten Wheels of Innovation. First we soar to the 20,000 feet view as we make the trace. Then we look at the threshold...

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May 21, 2011

The KEY: A Leader’s Priorities

How do you prioritize your time? Where do you focus your energy? These are the questions any good leader asks daily. Time, energy and focus are your three most precious assets. You create movement and results in your organization by applying energy and focus in the time you have. You lead by applying your ETF – Energy, Time and Focus. This is your most critical...

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Apr 28, 2011

The KEY: Your Biggest Mistake Ever – The Symmetry Trap

For some irrational, crazy reason we get hooked, even mesmerized, by the idea of symmetry and expect life to be equally symmetrical; this ruins almost everything important. There is nothing symmetrical in the real world. Even beautiful flowers are not symmetrical. Expecting relationships to be symmetrical is a current insanity. You assume what you get should be equal to what you give; the person you...

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