Coaching Points

You're paid to manage the day-to-day, and the biggest threats to daily progress are what happened in the past, and what “might” happen in the future. 

Nobody likes to give bad news, but it's part of the job...

In a recession, things have to change fast. But change takes a lot of trial-and-error. So you want to “fail fast”, and “fix fast”. 

Sometimes you have to implement unpopular decisions that you didn't make, that you don't like, that you don't fully understand and that you don't agree with. 

A lot of pressure comes from “imaginary stress”. That's when you're worried about a potential threat that “might happen” in the future. 

Our former President Dwight D. Eisenhower developed a way to set priorities so he could manage his time more effectively. He thought of his priorities as being either 'important' or 'urgent'.

Your thoughts are always fighting for your attention, and the thoughts that you give your attention to, are going to influence how you feel, and what you do. 

Good managers can motivate others. But great managers teach people how to self-motivate! 

If time stood still, we wouldn’t need leaders; but business operates in “perpetual motion”. And with each day that passes, this perpetual motion is pushing us further and further from today's norms (the status quo)...

If someone's resisting change, you have to do some re-zoning. They're holding on to the status quo because it's inside their comfort zone. And the change, whatever it is, is still “outside” their comfort zone...