You can�€™t afford to squander any �€œteachable moments�€� in your life
Most of the time, your habits, ingrained social conditioning and long-term values have your mind tightly barricaded against any possibility of significant change. Yet when events are just right (or just wrong, depending on your viewpoint), that doorway to your innermost mind is forced open [...]

The Turtle Principle
Expert leaders inspire their followers through the sheer force and clarity of their vision. Today we look at the seven secrets to achieving and leveraging your leadership vision.
�€œMake decisions in the short term to satisfy the needs of the long-term.�€�
The Turtle Principle comes from the Tortoise and the Hare. [...]

Knowing when enough is enough is a precious skill
We live in a society where �€œfixing�€� things is the norm. Despite the common saying, �€œIf it ain�€™t broke, don�€™t fix it,�€� people are constantly striving to fix things that either don�€™t need fixing or are beyond help. People constantly try to �€œfix�€� their businesses, their [...]

Overwork can be a seemingly respectable way to avoid dealing with other difficult issues in your life
Working long hours is a great way to hide from life�€™s problems. It can absorb so much of your time and energy that you never have any left to deal with aspects of your life that you�€™d like to [...]

Dealing with objections to slowing down
�€œI can�€™t slow down. I have so much to do. If I slowed down, my results would fall off and I�€™d be in a total mess.�€� It sounds like a reasonable objection to the idea of �€œSlow�€� in the workplace, but it�€™s not. Much of the reasoning that justifies our [...]

Are you on autopilot?
Here are five signs to check whether you�€™re heading toward some pre-determined destination that has been chosen for you by others.
Are you on autopilot? Admittedly this can be a tough question to answer. First, it is always hard to be brutally honest with oneself. If you realize that you are traveling through [...]

The basics are rarely considered glamorous or awe-inspiring. Their value and importance are demonstrated, time and again, through the enduring success of individuals and organizations. From every strata and corner of the business world and beyond, winners are associated with the superior execution of the basics. Slow managers can dramatically improve themselves [...]

Why expressing your gratitude can take you further than you think
Sometimes a picture hits you and makes you stop and think. That�€™s what happened to me when I came across this on the web (You can find it at You give me faith).
Our grab-and-go, macho, Hamburger Management organizations aren�€™t big on gratitude: they�€™re much more [...]

One sure-fire sign of macho management is lack of courtesy. A pressure cooker environment doesn’t make space for pleasantries. Microwave management doesn’t leave time for politeness. A slow management environment sees the value in civility and fosters it graciously.
Courtesy is a skill that must be practiced and likely relearned from time-to-time. [...]

Today, I am pleased to welcome our next �€œtrial�€� guest author: Desertcat, a fellow inhabitant of Arizona.

Desertcat has many years of experience in Supply Chain Management. He has also taught a management course at a university in the Northwestern USA and worked with Boeing and the US Air Force. Currently, he works for a large [...]