| By Bruce Weinstein, www.forbes.com | The field of management is littered with men and women who are willing to settle for being mediocre. Mediocrity is easy. Awfulness requires courage, focus, and dedication. What does it take to be truly terrible? If you consistently apply the following seven simple rules, you’ll go beyond what is merely acceptable […]
Tim Ferriss is convinced New Year’s resolutions are a waste of time
| By Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com | As someone who’s made a career of analyzing the habits of routines of the world’s most successful people, Tim Ferriss is convinced that New Year’s resolutions are a waste of time. The “4-Hour Workweek” and “Tribe of Mentors” author and podcast hostthinks that the practice of setting an ambitious goal for a new year […]
3 Ways Writing Down Your Goals Can Help You Become Top Of Mind
| By John Hall, www.forbes.com | With the new year comes talk of reflection and resolutions: building more, selling more, maybe even exercising more. Last year, I noted thatself-awareness is the key to the best resolutions and committed to four goals as a leader of my company. As the year progressed, I found that one of the most […]
There’s More to Life Than Being Happy
Our culture is obsessed with happiness, but what if there’s a more fulfilling path? Happiness comes and goes, says writer Emily Esfahani Smith, but having meaning in life — serving something beyond yourself and developing the best within you — gives you something to hold onto. Learn more about the difference between being happy and […]
How Are You Perceived at Work? Here’s an Exercise to Find Out
| By Kristi Hedges, hbr.org | It’s not easy to understand how other people perceive us. We are often uncertain, confused, or even completely unaware of what we project. And this lack of self-awareness can be career-limiting. Consider a former client of mine who was angling for the C-suite but had received feedback that his colleagues considered […]
Want to Be More Effective as a Leader? Follow These 5 Principles
| By Sami Inkinen, www.inc.com | No doubt in the upcoming new year many of us will be making resolutions and setting ambitious new goals. As for me, no matter what goals I set, I’ll be thinking about how I can maximize my impact on the path to achieving them. This is a question I’ve thought about often. My own approach to […]
Morning Routines and Success
| By Joshua Spodek, www.inc.com | You show me a successful person and I’ll show you one with structured daily habits. The more successful, the more self-imposed, challenging, relevant, and active his or her habits. Even bad-boy athletes, apparently self-indulgent rock stars, and counter-cultural artists have habits. Rather, the long-term successful ones do. The most successful people […]
Football, Expectations, Academics and Finances
| By Glynn A. Hill, www.houstonchronicle.com | It’s a humble display, but a monument to Rice’s modern success. Atop a folding table draped in a blue tablecloth sits Trevor Cobb’s 1991 Doak Walker Award, David Bailiff’s 2013 Conference USA Coach of the Year Award, and trophies for the the Owls’ division and conference titles that same year. […]