by arnoudse | Oct 28, 2014 | Connect, Discover, Lead, Obstacles, Vitality
Our culture honors beginnings. First loves. Grand openings. New product launches. Fresh starts. Clean slates. New beginnings. We are often not very good at endings. Bad business break-ups; messy divorces. We fear a lay-off even when we hate the job we have or losing a...
by arnoudse | Oct 21, 2014 | Connect, Discover, Lead, Obstacles
I love reading Seth Godin’s daily blog. In a recent post, No One to Say No, he said “people are not afraid of failure, they are afraid of blame”. I couldn’t agree more. And yet, these days it seems that most people are playing The Blame Game. When something goes...
by arnoudse | Oct 14, 2014 | Connect, Discover, Obstacles
A lot of my coaching clients are dealing with a great deal of uncertainty lately; in their businesses and in their own lives. Can you relate? I sure can. One global business leader, George (not his real name), was telling me how he really couldn’t move ahead without a...
by arnoudse | Oct 7, 2014 | Connect, Obstacles
I was inspired today by a story on the Morning Joe show on MSNBC. After returning home from two tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Sgt. Daniel Rodriguez felt completely lost. After fighting the Taliban at age 19, he was now back in a world that didn’t really know...
