How to pick a Great Team

Leadership Blog, Leadership Lessons

You’ve been given the opportunity to put together your own team. What kind of people do you want? People with a POSITIVE ATTITUDE. Do they display a positive outlook on life? Psychologists use the term “growth mindset” to describe those whose world view is of a...

How is your life built?

Leadership Blog, Leadership Lessons

I’ve seen this story several places and wish I knew who wrote it. An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house-building business to live a more leisurely life with his wife and enjoy his extended...

You don’t know what you’re talking about!

Leadership Blog, Leadership Lessons

Leaders sometimes find themselves in situations when meeting debate starts out as polite dialogue and then as emotions and passions take over, it erupts into heated argument and maybe red-faced name calling. If you’re not careful you too can be drawn into the fray....

The Amazingly Simple Secrets on How to be Remarkable in Today’s World

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A recent flurry of situations, people and conversations prompted me to write this. These thoughts have been rolling around in me for a long time, but today I decided to dump my opinions and frustrations on anyone who will read it. So here we go, Mike’s unfiltered,...

Who I Think Will Win the Super Bowl

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This Sunday is a big day for NFL fans; Super Bowl XLVIII. I was thinking last night I wonder how many fans could actually tell you what number XLVIII is, but that’s another subject for another time. In any event, if two guys burst into my house, one grabbed me, and...