7 Traits of High-Performing Team Members

7 Traits of High-Performing Team Members

Having led all kinds of different teams in the past 25 years, from sports and Navy SEALs to companies and charities, I have discovered seven traits that characterize unstoppable teammates. These are the general traits required—the must-haves for powerful team...
Being Effective at Work: Essential Traits and Skills

Being Effective at Work: Essential Traits and Skills

Do you consider yourself to be effective at work? Although many of us like to think that we’re 100 percent effective, the truth is that most of us have strengths and weaknesses that impact our effectiveness. Many of us could benefit from tweaking at least a few...
This Morning Routine will Save You 20+ Work Hours Per Week

This Morning Routine will Save You 20+ Work Hours Per Week

The traditional 9–5 workday is poorly structured for high productivity. Perhaps when most work was physical labor, but not in the knowledge working world we now live in. Although this may be obvious based on people’s mediocre performance, addiction to stimulants, lack...
How Happy Are You?

How Happy Are You?

Sometime before I was happy, on Fourth of July weekend in 2011, I moved out of my home and first marriage, and then my laptop quit. This is a problem for a writer.  I’d spent most of the holiday scrubbing the cabinets of a rental home, fixing a crack in the...