The leaders I’ve worked with for some three decades have taught me many things, but these are two of the most important: Great leaders constantly strive to strike a balance between work and the other realms of their lives. Great leaders share a passion: They want to make a difference in the world. Here’s something else I’ve learned along the way: those two things go hand in hand. The most successful leaders are the ones who work the …
I have been enjoying reading “The Keeper”, the auto biography of Tim Howard– the bearded goalkeeper who was so sensational on the US Men’s National Team during last summer’s World Cup in Brazil. In his book, he talks openly about his two psychological disorders, which while causing him great difficulty in his early life, have also been an asset in his goalkeeping career. The psychological problems are Tourette’s Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which result in facial and verbal ticks, compulsive behavior, …
It’s the first day of the first full week of the year, and I woke up thinking about Isaac Newton and his first law of thermodynamics: objects at rest tend to stay at rest, and objects in motion tend to stay in motion, unless they are acted upon by an external force. “Yikes,” I think, “I think I know what that force is: work!” When it comes to work, no one had it more accurate than Maynard G Krebs. …