We live in a culture of blame. This seems to be the rule and no longer the exception. When did we become so afraid of accepting responsibility? I know for me personally, I used to hate making mistakes. And worse than that, I was getting in trouble for my mistakes. […]
At Momentum Consulting, we have basic fundamentals and choose to review one per week. This week, we are studying the Fundamental “BE DEDICATED TO PERSONAL GROWTH.” I struggle with this one. Maybe it’s ironic, but as an executive coach …I don’t consider myself very coachable. I may have gotten a […]
While Conducting 360 interviews for a CEO client last year, I was speaking to his direct reports, peers and board members. After offering his thoughts, one of the board members asked me, “do my comments sync with what you’re hearing from others?” When I answered that I could not share […]
I recently had a first in a lifetime experience! Pete Buttigieg, a Presidential candidate, was in town. A friend, who thinks highly of him, invited us to go with her to hear him speak. We went! It was held downtown at an event facility and there were several hundred, maybe […]
In business, relationships, and in life, expect to get what you ask for and not more. Some people will over-deliver and give you more than what you asked for. Consider that to be a bonus. But expecting people to deliver on something exactly “how I would do it” is a set-up for disappointment […]
“If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do we keep score?” -Vince Lombardi I am dedicating this week’s Fundamental to the late great Vince Lombardi. Why? We are 3 weeks away from the start of college football season. I’m so excited!! My favorite sport to watch is […]
What Would Yvette Do? I have a business coaching client who runs a very successful mortgage office. And by “very” successful, I mean she was the #1 producer last year, and in the top 1% in her industry. In an industry heavy with regulations and rules of what you can […]
Accountability may be one of the most misunderstood concepts in business, as well as life in general. And the misunderstanding is twofold: First, most of us associate BLAME with accountability, but they are, in fact, quite different. Blame is defined by the Cambridge English Dictionary as “the situation in which people say or think that someone […]
More often than I would like to admit, I find myself being overwhelmed by the number of commitments I have made in any given week. My default behavior is to make sure I stay driven to fulfill on everything I have said “yes” to, at all cost. Inevitably, things pile […]
Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent, as opposed to that which is merely imaginary. The term is also used to refer to the ontological status of things, indicating their existence. In physical terms, reality is the totality of the universe, known and unknown. Wikipedia distinguishes between […]