by Art Dykstra | Aug 1, 2019 | Blog
LEARN A LITTLE: It is going to be unpleasant and you are going to do it. As a leader, there are those times when you have to do the unpleasant thing: to fire someone, to reassign them, to tell the employee he has bad breath. There is also the time when you have to...
by Art Dykstra | Jul 1, 2019 | Blog, Leadership
LEARN A LITTLE: STOP THINKING No doubt all of us have had the occasions when we think too much. We don’t make progress on our decision making because we keep processing the same things over and over again. What we need to do is to cultivate the mindset, “just start...
by Art Dykstra | Jun 1, 2019 | Blog
LEARN A LITTLE: A SENSE OF MEANING Someone recently asked me what I meant when I said, “It’s important to have a sense of meaning in our lives.” Meaning is having a full fuel tank and feeling good about it. If you have ever traveled a long distance “running on empty,”...
by Art Dykstra | May 1, 2019 | Blog
LEARN A LITTLE: Thinking About Feedback We all know that receiving feedback can polish our skills and improve our performance. But did you ever think about who gives us feedback? If it’s someone we respect, someone who is knowledgeable, we are likely to think about it...
by Art Dykstra | Apr 1, 2019 | Blog
Learn A Little: All of us worry about productivity and getting things done—how to be more effective and efficient. Caroline Webb in How to Have a Good Day shares an interesting formula for fighting distractions and procrastination in eleven simple words: One...
