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Simple Ideas, Complex Execution
Simple Ideas, Complex Execution
The secrets to success often lie in plain sight. They are secrets only because we chose to overlook them. Sometimes the most mundane can serve…
November 30, 2010
Think Like a Street Kid
Entrepreneurship has many facets. One of them is the ability to think like a street kid. Tough, nimble, resourceful, relying solely on your own skills…
November 29, 2010
One Worry
An article ran in a recent Wall Street Journal suggesting that one of the biggest issues facing executives is time management. It reminded me of…
November 23, 2010
Holiday Advice: Drink Up! (Water That Is)
Concerned about over-indulging in calories during the holidays, or any big food-oriented event? Drinking a glass of water 30 minutes before a meal has been…
November 22, 2010
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
A recent Business Week article focused on the lack of etiquette skills of the millennials currently graduating from college: “They’ve grown up with this Web…
November 19, 2010
Today is a New Day…
“Today is a new day and I am a new Nathan, totally free to make new choices.” This is one of my daily affirmations. It…
November 18, 2010
Too Easy = Harder?
Princeton University psychologist Daniel Oppenheimer did a study where information was presented to two groups in two formats: One printed in small, hard-to-read gray type,…
November 17, 2010
Every Yes is a No
Most of us are limited in some respect, often by time, money, or energy. This is true for organizations as well as individuals. It is…
November 16, 2010
The Not So Sorry Sorry, or the Apology That is Not an Apology
All of us have received an insincere apology, one we doubted was authentic. Here are some thoughts on apologies. How to give a good one,…
November 15, 2010
Don’t Solve the Problem, Build the Problem Solver
This most definitely falls under the heading of sharing what I most want to learn. When you are good at problem-solving it takes tremendous discipline…
November 12, 2010
To Know and Not Do Is To Not Know
I sometimes lead a short personal leadership course for the incoming real estate grad students at the University of Florida. I often tell them the…
November 11, 2010
Directing the Monkey Mind
Lee Kuan Yew was prime minister of Singapore from its founding in 1965 until 1990. As the father of modern-day Singapore, he is widely credited…
November 10, 2010
Mental Muscles
About 6 o’clock one recent Saturday morning I went downstairs and did a few reps on a Nautilus machine. The longer I live, the more…
November 9, 2010
Conflict Avoidance: Passive—Aggressive Coping Mechanism
Conflict avoidance can be a major stumbling block in resolving ongoing problems in any relationship or organization. Awareness is the first step toward solution. Concealment…
November 8, 2010
Waste Not, Want Not
Up to half the almost 600 billion pounds of food the United States produces each year goes to waste at a cost of hundreds of…
November 5, 2010
Hard Drives Out Soft
When I started out in the real estate ownership and management business, I decided there were three things I had to emphasize to my Team…
November 4, 2010
Star Tasks vs. Guardian Tasks: Harvard Business Review and Pirates
According to Hayagreeva Raoa’s guest column in the October 2010 issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR), “What 17th-Century Pirates Can Teach Us About Job Design,”…
November 3, 2010
The Courage to Lead: I’m Still a Work in Progress, Always Will Be
For a long time I was reluctant to engage in certain forms of leadership. The straight business side, such as goal setting, planning, and directing…
November 2, 2010
Profound Change
Most highly-successfully people change profoundly over the course of their lives, endlessly developing and honing the qualities that permit them to first succeed and then…
November 1, 2010