Focusing On Awareness Leads To Good Business Decisions
We can use the term value to mean what we feel, positively or negatively, toward a person or situation. When we have good feelings about someone, we say we value him or her, whereas the opposite is...
View ArticleHow Optimism Works in Our Relationships
Meaning comes from finding value in your experience of life, primarily in the relationships with those with whom you interact on a daily basis. Optimism is the result of taking hold of the...
View ArticleDo Having Good Business Relationships Lead To Fulfillment?
Facing your feelings and those of others and being your authentic self in the moment appropriately can bring success and fulfillment to work. What does the research tell us? First of all, what does it...
View ArticleHow Negativity Can Undermine Business Relationships
You ask a new employee out to lunch, hoping to establish a link with someone who has an expertise that is very useful to you. However, this person turns you down without any specific explanation and...
View ArticleHave You Succumbed to a High-Tech Reject?
Once in a while, we may choose to go along with our first inclinations, if that appears to be the right thing after giving it due consideration. Anger might be used as fuel to move ahead on a stalled...
View ArticleFour Steps to Improving Communication with Your Business Relationships
There are four stages to emotional awareness that, if understood, will help you to better communicate with your business relationships. Impulsive Reaction Initially we experience the emotion and react...
View ArticleTechnology is a Dual-Edged Sword
Over the years, I’ve been blessed with a great lifestyle from and around the technology field. From ComputerLand in the 1980s to Silicon Graphics in the 1990s and SaaS (Software as a Service)...
View ArticleJoin Me at the SIBF 2011 Summit in San Francisco on September 22-25 for a...
I’m excited to let everyone know about this upcoming event as I’ll be keynoting alongside speakers such as Dr. Robert Gates, Former US Secretary of Defense. http://www.sibfsummit.org/program/speakers/...
View ArticleWhy Teleconferences Leave You Feeling Empty
In this age of high-tech communication, we’re often challenged by the lack of nonverbal data that accompany more natural forms of communication. For example, one reason some of us occasionally find it...
View ArticleThe Cutting Edge of Authenticity and Building Relationships
We have to dig deep to nurture those skills that makes us more relevant and even indispensable to the organization for which we work. But how do we accomplish this? First, we must pay more attention to...
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