Moments
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Marty

We talk a lot about resilience. These days, just mustering up the capacity to cope with the pressures of everyday life is getting harder. For leaders though, the challenge is even tougher. You need to manage your own physical and mental state – sure – but you also have to model self-mastery for your team.  […]

It’s easy to reduce the process of learning from your mistakes to a few pithy sayings: “Failure is another stepping stone to greatness” “When we give ourselves permission to fail, we also give ourselves permission to excel.” “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly!” “I never fail — I either succeed, or I […]

You may have heard me talk about the leadership myth that “happy workers are productive workers”…  … conventional wisdom says that, if you want a team to perform, just keep your people happy! This, in turn will increase their engagement… which in turn will motivate them to perform. Bulls!t… Let’s look at this from the […]

In Ep.254, which we released about 18 months ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing Scott J Miller. Scott is the host of FranklinCovey’s On Leadership podcast.  Over the 6 years that he’s been hosting On Leadership, Scott has interviewed some of the all-time greats in leadership, business, and life. He has interviewed household names […]

There’s so much talk these days about purpose… kids at a very young age seem to be indoctrinated with the notion that if you don’t pursue your purpose, you’re somehow lesser… or that what you choose to do has no meaning or value. This is complete bullsh!t I didn’t find my true purpose until I […]

Over the last several years, we’ve seen greater integration of our work and personal lives than ever before… some would even go so far as to say it’s unprecedented. It began a couple of decades ago, when innovations in telecommunications and mobile technology gave us the ability to be “online” no matter where we were. […]

Over the course of your leadership career, you will deal with people from all walks of life, many different cultures, and a range of socio-economic backgrounds. You’ll also see just about every dimension of human frailty, and the issues that many of us face daily. In any team, you’ll have a cross section of the […]

If you want to build a team that outlasts others, you need each and every individual to be able to handle pressure. And this starts with you. You set the tone for what happens in times of stress, pressure, and crisis. Just ask yourself, “how do I handle pressure?”. Some leaders hide, avoiding the issue […]

Many people rate public speaking as one of their top fears. A lot of our worst memories of public speaking go back to our first experiences, as impressionable young children in the classroom.  We might associate it with self-consciousness and embarrassment… perhaps we worry about forgetting our lines, or not knowing what to say… or […]

I’m often asked when I’m interviewed, “Marty, what’s one thing you wish you’d learned earlier”… or the more modern form of that question, which is, “Marty, what would you like to be able to tell your 20-year old self?” There are any number of life lessons that I could absolutely have used earlier on, and […]