Crack Your Identity Code – 8 Essential Questions

Figuring out who you are isn’t some cosmic, unanswerable guru-directed challenge. It is job one if you plan to live a happy, fulfilling life.

Trust me, I’ve been there. Listen up…

Crack your identity code and the contours of your life will shift. You will not only come out stronger, you will come out larger — larger in heart, larger in influence, and larger in your capacity to love and be loved.

Please read this resource and see how these questions can aid you in shifting your life in positive and lasting ways.

Getting to productivity – one human being at a time

Disclosure: This is a promotion, sort of.

I am an unabashed fan of human productivity and the need to marshal it at any and all costs. So, here goes…

Human productivity is ultimately the only thing that allows organizations to achieve and sustain superior performance. Tapping the productive instincts, capacities and drive of human beings is one of the most elusive but important challenges of our time.

Identity Mapping® is a dynamic program for tapping the value-creating power of your workforce. It’s pedigree is not just my own identity consulting experience, but also the experience of The Ken Blanchard Companies, one of the leading leadership development and training companies on earth.

Identity Mapping helps meet the productivity challenge by enabling individuals to clarify the unique, value-creating powers inherent in their identities, and then apply them to their work, their careers, and the organization as a whole.

If productivity matters to you, download this valuable program resource.

What’s your personal brand?

There’s so much talk these days about personal branding and how important it is to shaping a successful career. But exactly what is a ”personal brand” and where does it come from? Continue reading →

What is the purpose of aging?

What do we do with ourselves when we wake up to the press of time? When one’s physical abilities to excel are largely past? When one’s chance to “be somebody” through one’s children is no longer an option? When one’s opportunity – if not root desire – to make a million bucks has slipped by?

What are we left with? Continue reading →

The Problem with Human Resources

I just read a piece in The New York Times Sunday business section called “The Pull of Heavy industry.” It features Alex Kummant, the CEO of Amtrak. When asked about what keeps him up at night (besides his 4 month old), he said, “human resources issues.” Continue reading →

What should you do with your life?

Last week, the New York Times ran an article, entitled What Do I Do? What Week It Is about a guy named Sean Aiken, who was trying out a new job every week for a year. The article quotes Sean as saying, “We have been told our whole life that anything is possible. Well, our parents did a great job, cause now we actually believe it.”

Bad idea! Continue reading →

“Business Discovers Happiness Pays”

That’s my fantasy news flash for the day. I came across the article Businesses Offer Ways for Employees to Balance Work and Family on the ABC News site the other day that described how helping people deal with non-business related stress – marriage, children, etc. – makes employees more productive workers. Continue reading →

Down with Individuals (Not!)

A recent, front page article in The New York Times about French
identity reported that the French Conservative candidate for president,
Nicolas Sarkozy, wants to establish a new arm of the government – a
ministry of “immigration and national identity.” At the same time, Continue reading →