Dr. Wayne Baker, my colleague at The Ross School of Business will be presenting tomorrow 2/25/2020 at TechTown as part of my Leaders Connect (Detroit) series. He will be discussing and signing his fabulous new best selling book, All You Have To Do Is Ask: How to Master the Important Skill for Success. One of my favorite parts of the book is the simple assessment that you can do yourself to identify which of these giving and receiving profiles you …
Based on my work with hundreds of people faced with adversity, I have found that resiliency is the most important factor in their success. Here are the seven most important attributes of resilient people: Resilient people carefully decide what they can control and what they can’t. Resilient people know there are always other solutions and they find ways to improvise and stay flexible. Resilient people recognize their fear, but do what they have to do anyway. Resilient people are realistically …
Austin Hatch: An Inspiration Last week at my Leaders Connect Breakfast, I had the honor to host one of my former students, Austin Hatch. As most of you know, Austin is an incredible young man who, after spending over 2 months in a coma following a plane crash, graduated from University of Michigan. Amazingly, this was the second plane crash that he had survived. When he came out of his coma, not only did he have to face the loss …
Do You Have a Temper Tantrum Problem? Here’s a quiz for you leaders: When you read the term, “temper tantrum”, what comes to mind? A. Little children out of control? B. Sports legends arguing with the refs or fighting with each other (Think Billy Martin, Bob Probert, or John McEnroe)? C. Drunks in a bar? D. Myself In my experience as a coach, very seldom do I see people selecting “myself” as the answer to this little quiz. I find …
I first met Steve Angerman in the mid-1980’s. At the time he was running a sporting goods and running store above Bivouac in Ann Arbor. I was impressed that, as a young man, he seemed to be doing what he loved, and he was very good at it. Over the next 30 years, with his business partner Randy, he built that little store into a large chain of nine running stores, called Running Fit. Additionally, he developed a substantial side …
April 23, 1968, Ann Arbor I was just 21 when I learned that Martin Luther King had been assassinated in Memphis. Several of my friends and I, who were all preparing to graduate from the University of Michigan, immediately gathered in our small apartment to watch on our tiny black and white TV to seek and understand the details of his death. Tears flowed as we sat in shock watching one of our heroes being remembered. His “I Have a Dream Speech“, played on continual repeat on the television and radio. …