What’s more important, logic or relationships? Truth or friendship? Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” has something to say about that–yes, even at work. Another episode of #guyswithoutlookswithbooks, where we bring the book club to the workplace. The excerpt and study guide for this episode, “Conviction vs. friendship,” is available for free download. We would love your questions and comments …
Podcast 92: Introducing the Workplace Book Club — #guyswithoutlookswithbooks
Mark puts his money where his classically educated mouth is: He and Mike read and discuss a bit of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” What in the world does this have to do with the workplace? A lot, it turns out. Do you know anybody who is proud of their defects? Welcome to #guyswithoutlookswithbooks. The excerpt and study guide for …
Coming soon: The Workplace Book Club
We’re doing something weird on the podcast next week, so I want to give an introduction: A recent series on this blog discussed the immersive technologies that may lead to a metaverse. (If this viral video from Walmart is any judge, we aren’t quite there yet. … Elon Musk isn’t impressed either.) It also discussed how cyberpunk authors predicted such …
Horn Sections Make Rock Better: Life in a Glass House
A reader took in my series on how technologies that will allow the metaverse are already leading to cyberpunk culture that workplaces must address. She then sent me this NPR podcast on Radiohead’s groundbreaking albums Kid A and Amnesiac. She observed that Radiohead really deserves a place in the cyberpunk series. Like U2 in the early ’90s, Radiohead issued a …
Coaching for sales is about much more than numbers
I had been doing professional facilitation and coaching for a number of years before I pursued coaching from a program aligned with the International Coach Federation. When I interviewed a possible training institute, I would ask, “Is this life coaching? Because I don’t want that. I don’t want businesses to think of Oprah Winfrey or something like that when they …
Podcast 88: Stay curious: the key to a growth mindset
Our last episode suggested you “ask one more question.” That habit is built on the foundation discussed in this episode. The humility to stay curious and confess “I don’t know” is the key to growth. We would love your questions and comments for future episodes: Email Mike and Mark. Listen here … subscribe on Spotify, Amazon or Apple … or …
Our presence can be our presents
Enjoying the Moment It’s neat and tidy in my household: Autumn birthdays and Halloween all wrap up by the end of Oct. 31. All that’s left is the candy. The kids have been waking up early every morning to lay out their treasures … and trade them. It’s like they have forgotten that they can eat the treats. We ration …
Excerpt: “The Lost Tools of Business”
Following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, “The Lost Tools of Business.” We are in the process of getting it ready for publication, and I’d love your thoughts in the comments below. The events that led to this book began with a call from my wife that stopped my heart: “Well, I’m uncomfortable.” “Uncomfortable” meant “almost done with labor.” …
The new research behind an ancient culture-building method
I invite clients to “wrestle and grow.” That growth happens in three areas: growing more organized, growing more confident and growing more influential. Classical culture-building Those three words sum up my method to help clients build their cultures. But really, they are principles of classical education–the system that built the most successful and longest-lasting culture of all time: the West. …
Which version of being intentional works for you?
I have a client who has been reading coach Urban Meyer’s “Above the Line.” Meyer discusses the Success Formula: E + R = O. That is, an Event plus my Response to that event yields the Outcome. Events happen to us. What is under our control is how we respond to those events. Meyer points out that it is not …