Category Archives: Leadership

Leadership & Being Real – Being Better and Doing the Right Thing

Posted on July 25, 2013 by pbeznoska

“Knowing the material Self-Betrayal leads to self-deception and “the box”. When you’re in the box, you can’t focus on results Your influence and success will depend on being out of the box You get out of the box as you … Continue reading →

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Self-Worth, Success and Failure, Trying Again

Posted on May 29, 2013 by pbeznoska

“You’ve designed a product or written an article or created apiece of art that you want to share with a group of friends.  Sharing something that you’ve created is a vulnerable but essential part of engaged and Wholehearted living.  It’s … Continue reading →

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Vulnerability, Openness, Courage

Posted on April 13, 2013 by pbeznoska

“During my talk I asked the audience two questions that reveal so much about the many paradoxes that define vulnerability.  First I asked, “How many of you struggle to be vulnerable because you think of vulnerability as weakness?”  Hands shot … Continue reading →

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Goal Setting, Productivity & Vision

Posted on December 15, 2012 by pbeznoska

“We all know how important it is to have goals, right? And not just any goals, but stretch goals. Big Hairy Audacious Goals (or BHAGs, as they’re known to the inner goal-setting crowd). It makes sense: if you don’t know … Continue reading →

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Introversion – Listening before Speaking – Adding Value Quietly

Posted on July 5, 2012 by pbeznoska

“A well-know study out of UC Berkeley by organizational behavior professor Philip Tetlock found that television pundits – that is, people who earn their livings by holding forth confidently on the basis of limited information – make worse predictions about … Continue reading →

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Productivity, Focus and Multi-Tasking

Posted on May 21, 2012 by pbeznoska

“Schwartz argues that it’s up to individuals and managers to avoid the multitasking trap. But I look at it a different way: ultimately, it’s up to institutions to make sure employees are focused. Businesses and government agencies that are serious … Continue reading →

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Lewis & Clark, Judgment & the Course of U.S. History

Posted on April 27, 2012 by pbeznoska

“The expedition proceeded in the morning past a two-mile island where Colter, with the last horse belonging to the expedition, had camped for the night and killed four elk.  He had hung them on trees along the shore.  Lewis sent … Continue reading →

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Politics & Team Effectiveness – Culture

Posted on March 12, 2012 by pbeznoska

“The desire to avoid conflict is understandable, but it’s one of the most debilitating factors in organizational life.  Lack of candor contributes to longer cycle times, slow decision making, and unnecessarily iterative discussions.  A too-polite veneer often signals an overly … Continue reading →

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Leadership – Vision – Bill Donovan

Posted on March 5, 2012 by pbeznoska

  “The agency Donovan created would send an organizational theorist into convulsions.  It became a Rube Goldberg collection of disparate programs, functions, and initiatives whose common denominator sometimes was only that Donovan had dreamed them up.  By any measure he … Continue reading →

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