by Andrea Goeglein Tom Rath’s new book has me fully charged.  Before I tell you why, I want to thank – again – Ben Dean of Mentor Coach for the outstanding educational platform he has developed.  I bought Fully Charged because I received a notice that Ben was doing an interview with Tom.  If you...Read More

Every so often in my work I am given the opportunity to experience first hand why groups of people need to organize around a central mission that they value when they come together to achieve a goal.  It does not matter if the group is a family, a small business, or a huge business or...Read More

This week has been all about freedom in the United States.   Freedom may have been the theme, but I was reminded how important the emotional strength of courage is to our freedom in some unusual ways.  The courage of those who protect our freedom is obvious.  What I had lost focus of was how much courage it takes  achieve...Read More

I have a very simple Dr. Success challenge to start your new month. Dr. Success Challenge:  Answer these questions:  Do you have a tendency of describing your day as ‘crazy busy’?  If so, how do you feel when you describe your day that way? As an experiment, when asked, describe your day as ‘happy busy’. ...Read More

The season, and today, December 25, has become about gifts. No judgement, just stating the obvious.  In the US  generally the “holiday season” has become about buying, giving and getting gifts. Dr. Success Christmas Challenge:   Discover your top 5 strengths — your natural gifts — and design your days so that you are able to...Read More

One of the 24 Values In Action from Positive Psychology research is Persistence (Perseverance and Industriousness)(p.229).  This weekend I stopped to buy a glass of lemonade from two children in my neighborhood.  I had backed out of my garage and did not notice the lemonade stand until I was about turn the corner.  I pulled...Read More

ow this old post really made me smile.  I found as I was planning this trip that I have a very cheap streak.  That streak is along the lines of never wanting to invest money on ‘side trips’ — I like to go first class, stay first class, spend first class — but don’t like...Read More

Sometime in 2009 I was at a dinner and someone posed a conversation starter:  If you had 3 minutes with the President Obama, what would you ask or say.  For me the answer was easy.  “Please do not violate my ethical trust in you.”  Notice I did not say, please don’t cheat on your wife. ...Read More

Big news:  All criminal charges against former global financial leader, Dominique Strauss-Kahn,  have been dropped. Bigger news we globally are too weak to discuss:  Strauss-Kahn story should not be about  criminal wrong doing.  The story should be about about trusting leadership to have evolved in their emotional intelligence to the point that they can manage their...Read More

I have been uber busy since returning from our daughter’s magical wedding.  I apologize for not writing more yet I needed to stop and make a request. I have been enthralled with the $100 million donation Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, made to the Newark, NJ school district.  His action is a perfect example of impacting institutions...Read More