Power • Influence • Impact

The Secret to Making the Politics Easy

To make handling the politics easy, the very best thing you can do is get curious. Why? Because you have a lot of work to do. Only when you have done that work will it become easy. That work involves building relationships, understanding agendas, considering...

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Want to Handle the Politics? Become More Sociable

Your ability to handle the politics is directly determined by the quality of your relationships. Raise the quality and you will automatically become better equipped to engage effectively with the political dynamics swirling around you. Here's why... Want to Handle the...

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Do You Trust the Data?

Virtually all data presented today is biased towards the presenter’s agenda. This bias manifests in selective data, convenient data contexts, opinion masquerading as data and narrative delivered as objective fact. Which is a major problem when you need to make a...

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Get Noticed: Step Into The Line of Fire

Trying to get people's attention is hard at the best of times. Many people make it far harder than they need to because they miss this simple way to increase visibility and get noticed. Get Noticed: Step Into the Line of Fire https://vimeo.com/311445628/2883e22e25 You...

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Influence Made Easy

Life is complicated enough without us making it more so. While I strongly advocate simplicity, it frequently eludes me in my own work. Except, when I’m coaching. Yesterday was a prime example of this. My client all-but slapped his forehead as yet another simple...

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What to Do When Power Corrupts Your World

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Lord Action Only history will prove if we are at a point in time right now where absolute power is absolutely corrupting. Unable to divine what is fact, fiction or fake, on so many high-consequence...

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