Free yourself from the influence of external events, people and things. Free yourself from those with hidden agendas and obscure pitches, those who play your emotions and your past. Once you free your mind and heart, even from your past, then you can decide and be...
One thing I've learned over the years is that quite often you get what you expect to get. This is especially so when it comes to what you expect to get from other people. Are you setting yourself up for a fight, failure, or success? If You Go Looking for a Fight at...
To make handling the politics easy, the very best thing you can do is get curious. Why? Because you have a lot of work to do. Only when you have done that work will it become easy. That work involves building relationships, understanding agendas, considering...
Before you make your move, make sure you really understand how the world looks from their side of the table. No, you don’t need to agree with them, you have to understand your opposition. Imagine sitting in their seat for a moment. Pretend to hold their values, have...
When all eyes turn towards you, and the heat is on, make sure you don’t take it personally. I totally applaud those who step up and take responsibility. Those are the people who will go far. Provided that in so doing, they don’t take things too personally. For anyone...
Avoiding playing it dirty is not only possible, it is easy - when you know how. Most people naively believe that if you want to get on, you have to play the politics, and beat others at their own game. It certainly looks that way doesn’t it! The way many senior teams...