Annual performance appraisal

Annual performance appraisals.

 What’s the point?

Do you wait until year-end to coach and develop the children in your life?

Of course not.

What a ridiculous thought.

Exactly.

PS. How do you coach and develop yourself with feedback from self-reflection and self-evaluation?

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Will Podcasting go from fad to art?

Windermere Prep School website
Couple days ago from an after school meeting about the Arts.

 

Will Podcasting go from fad to art?

If it does, it will need to first move from fad to trend.

If podcasting lasts, the ones who break the mold create art will be the ones people will gravitate to.

A notable podcaster and i have been talking at length. Yesterday i told him that i believe he will benefit more from working with me than i will from working with him. At least initially. He agreed, and we struck an agreement.

He was going to purchase and send a special microphone from Seattle to Orlando. i offered to buy it (which i did) myself from Amazon. It will be here tomorrow.

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We’ve already decided that the sure thing is where we’ll bet our time and money

Rion Paige is one of two acts I predict will be in the X-Factor final
Rion Paige is one of two acts I predict will be in the X-Factor final

 

We’ve already decided that the sure thing is where we’ll bet our time and money.

Every meeting is about avoiding coming anywhere near the sentence, “this might not work,” and instead giving ammunition to the groupthink belief that this must work. – Godin

If we are lucky enough to have worked insanely hard enough, we eventually become blessed with revelations and insights that those who never leave shore will never, ever understand.

And we must learn (and we do) to be okay with this.

But there’s one more thing, a benefit that feeds upon itself. It stiffens an already courageous, audacious spine.

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In general, leadership theory isn’t worth the paper it’s written on

Catholic education books on a shelf
Volumes of text advising us what we should do

 

In general, leadership theory isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

Why?

You do the math. How many leadership books have we read in our lifetime? How many seminars, blogs, articles?

Then why do we still yearn for more?

What then? Seriously, what should we do next?

This is really the hard work of leadership, isn’t it? Figuring it out for ourselves, past the theory. You know, what works for us, right here, right now.

And to remember to start with the leader we see in our mirror.

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What price would we pay for career freedom?

Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa lobby at Christmas time
The Hospitality industry requires a commitment to long, unusual hours & flexible work schedules

 

What price would we pay for career freedom? Would we work 80-hour weeks for five solid years so we could get closer to a 40-hour work week?

Oh, and is there even such a thing as career freedom? A business owner told me years ago, “You either own a business, or it owns you”.

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