Subscribe to NSCBlog
Currently Viewing Category:
Goal Setting
Subscribe to NSCBlog
Experts Often Aren¹t (Take 2)
Insiders in a field know that frequently there is more room for professional judgment in certain pronouncements than the general public realizes. Often that is…
January 18, 2010
What Difference Do You Make?
There is a motivational website I bookmarked called Think TQ. I visit the site regularly because it has a message of the day, which frequently…
January 14, 2010
Exceed Expectations
Someone once asked me what goals should be set for a new hire. My answer was simple: – Exceed expectations. – Impress me. –…
January 13, 2010
Experts Often Aren’t: Expertise (and Experts) Are Over Rated
How did we get in this financial mess? How were we led over an economic cliff? Was it because we trusted the wrong experts? Or…
January 12, 2010
Emotional Intelligence
What is emotional intelligence? Why does it matter? In today’s hyper-competitive environment, technical ability and intellectual talent are taken as a given, merely table…
January 11, 2010
Fatalism vs. Future Orientation
It’s the old question: “Que sera, sera” vs. “Where there is a will, there is a way.” Or in psych speak, fatalism vs. future orientation.…
January 7, 2010
68 Rules, or Three Principles That Matter?
William Green, CEO of the $20+ billion (revenues) mega-consulting firm Accenture tells of the time he attended a 3-day training session for new managers (The…
January 5, 2010
Waste Not, Want Not
This old proverb was drilled into me at an early age along with that other golden oldie, “A penny saved is a penny earned.”…
December 31, 2009
Choose Your Pain
Wow, not a charming title! Choose your pain? Who wants to read about pain? Well, I never promised you a rose garden. Life is…
December 29, 2009
What If We Are Wrong?
Confirmation bias is the psychological term for the all-too human tendency to mainly see the information that confirms what we already believe. We often…
December 28, 2009
Urban Meyer: Choose a Story, Choose a Life
Life happens, situations occur. We interpret the events of our lives one way or another, weaving them into our life story. Different people see the…
December 10, 2009