Performance

I’m no stranger to books about change, whether that change is focused on an organizational or a personal result. It turns out that changes occurring at either a personal level or an organizational level still require a personal change. That is, organizational c...

What if someone put a gun to your head and said that you have to change or die? What if you knew that you were going to die if you didn’t change? Would you? I know that we all believe we would. It seems simple. However, the statistics don’t bear out thi...

My wife passed along an article to me that Bob Pozen wrote for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement titled “What’s the secret to running effective meetings? ” I was intrigued because I had recently written a chapter “Removing Innovation Friction by Impr...

How is it that some people just seem to get better and better at what they do? Whether it’s a ballerina, a musician, or a doctor, they just seem to get better with every day of practice. At the same time, how is it possible that most ballerinas, musicians, a...

Most books about success have some obvious plot lines. Work hard. Do the right things — even when it’s hard. They share their unique perspective on the world and then provide the recipe for getting success by following their steps. Raise Your Line: Succ...

Ultimate human performance, peak performance, optimal performance, and other terms have been used to describe people operating at the limits of what we are capable of doing. Research and broken records have demonstrated that our long standing beliefs...

I started reading The Success Principles  because it was the book that CJ McClanahan was going to do next in his book club. While that idea got redirected, I finished reading the book – several months after I started. Part of that is because the boo...

When multiple arrows point to the same place, you’ve got to go there. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There  is one of those places. The book Who: The A Method for Hiring  and The Power of the Other  both refer to Marshall Goldsmith’s work. It’s a powe...