Book Titles

…if you want to change your habits, just give less energy to the habits you don’t like.

…we need to help people focus on solutions instead of problems.

We need to give up our desire to find behaviors to fix, and become fascinated with identifying and growing people’s strengths…

To maximize our effectiveness as leaders, it’s time to give up second guessing what peoples’ brains need, and become masters of helping others think for themselves.

…being self-directed is the only way we learn, think, invent, create, solve problems, visualize, rethink, re-engineer – you name it, it all happens within a process of making our own connections.

Letting people come up with their own ideas is a deep well of motivation to tap.

To tell denies or negates another’s intelligence. To ask honors it. – Sir John Whitmore

If we want people to come up with great ideas, to think well, to reach their potential as employees, we want them focused on solutions most of the time.

Being conscious of removing the word ‘why’ from our conversations can be a great way to remember to focus on solutions.

…to improve ourselves, we have to create new wiring.