I’m only kind of a football fan. Mostly that’s because my football team left town (San Diego Chargers) after regularly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in the fourth quarter. But the recent NFL scouting combine was fun to watch and for me thinking about predicting success. I’ve written and spoken about the research …
Predicting individual success (thoughts after the NFL scouting combine) CONTINUE READING
Do you know what high performers have in common? Do you know what habits they share? Most of us want to be a high performer but we don’t spend any time looking at, studying, or being mentored by high performers. A couple years ago I spent 20 months doing nothing but digging into high performers. …
Yesterday I was reading this Vox article, Why (almost) no one wants to host the Olympics anymore. Here are some interesting insights: Since 1960, no Olympics have come under budget. Almost half of them went over budget by 100%. Most of the Olympic facilities created are too big for regular use after the games. Does …
Don’t let your next project make these Olympic-sized mistakes CONTINUE READING
I sat in a meeting when someone asked, “how could you bring next year’s results into this year?” I sat in another meeting and, after sharing two different and conflicting goals, I was asked, “how could we define these approaches so they didn’t conflict?” In yet another meeting I said something about cheap, fast, and …
Sometimes a little question can have a lot of power CONTINUE READING
Pressure and stress are not the same thing. A person can apply constant pressure and still not create any stress. And others can create stressful situations without pressure. Pressure can be productive. Stress rarely is.