Blog Archive
Why, How, and What: Going Deeper with Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle
Over the past month in my posts about risk, I’ve repeatedly referred to knowing your “WHY”. Over the next four weeks, we’re going to go deeper into the concept Simon Sinek shared in his TED talk Ho Great Leaders Inspire Action and book, Start with Why.
Make Your Hopes and Dreams a Reality with Due Diligence
Due diligence is the process of exploring your options. By exploring the facts of your potential decision in a strategic way, you make decisions based in reality and facts, not just hopes and dreams.
A Personal Brand is a Good Thing
Today I read a blog post – thanks to the Google Alert I set up for “Personal Brand” – that says Personal Branding needs to go away. This is from someone who writes “The BrandBuilder Blog”. His comments indicate that having a personal brand makes you a fake. I beg to differ.
Opportunity Costs, Risk and Your Why
As a business owner and a leader, each decision you make involves opportunity costs. There is always another way to accomplish a goal you set out to accomplish.
What Is Your Risk Tolerance?
Taking a risk involves finding the place where you can remain comfortable with the possibility of some loss in the process of making a gain. In very simple terms, this is a definition of risk tolerance.
Risk: What’s Your Why?
Taking a risk always involves the potential for loss, but it also has potential upside or gain. Without the potential upside, one wouldn’t even consider the risk.
The Unknown Area, Repository of Latent Strengths and Abilities
The Unknown quadrant of the JoHari window contains information we don’t know about our self and others don’t know as well. It can be latent abilities, skills, desires we possess or experiences that we’ve buried in our subconscious for some reason.
Opening Up the Hidden Area through Sharing
What are the stories and situations in your life you don’t lead with in a conversation? We all have parts of our life we choose to keep hidden.
Decreasing What You Don’t Know, But What Others Can See
Do you recognize this experience? Like clockwork, your curmudgeonly uncle makes a comment that aggravates your sister. Or a team member asks that annoying question after the decision is made and everyone wonders why they didn’t raise this issue while the discussion was going full tilt.
Self-Awareness in Action – The JoHari Open Pane
As a business owner, the leader of your business, your self-awareness and openness with your team sets the tone for openness in your entire organization.