Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #069 — "Hope is not a strategy!"My Vistage Chair, Larry Hart, said that so many times it became part of the lore of our group, almost a cliché. Despite that, the message landed … As a leader, hope isn't even part of the equation. Clear values, a resonant dream,…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #068 — Security does not a life make.Maslow taught us that it is only when our need for security is met that we can even contemplate having our psychological needs like love and belongingness met. "Security" is a funny thing. It's situational, contextual, fleeting … even an illusion. And,…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #067 — Sympathy is a force multiplier.Way back in Episode #005 (3/5/18), we played with Teddy Roosevelt's idea that "Comparison if the thief of joy." When I read this quote by Oscar Wilde, I first thought that this week's conversation would snap back to dire warnings against comparison or…
https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155995736602687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #066 — Want to succeed more? Then fail more! The next time you hear an entrepreneur, an executive, or the leader of any organization profess their belief in innovation, ask them how they reward failure. Chances are, they don’t. And when failure is not rewarded, innovation is NOT…
https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155981784867687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #065 — To be human is fascinating! Yes, I have a sense of humor. I can find humor in just about every situation.* And though that has been a constant in my life, like Achilles, my superpower had a weak point. I was known to take myself WAY…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #064 — To be reborn is to become!Back in Episode 25, the idea we played with was “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." AND I still LOVE that quote and that idea. But it's…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #063 — I hate my "But"!It was a brilliant conversation, until she showed her "But…" On a monthly call with a group of amazing coaches, this powerful woman described how powerfully she has been showing up and then she said, "I want to be like that is all areas…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #062 — Paying attention has a cost.There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but there is free rent. Every uncleared assumption or uncleared hurt or uncleared slight … every moment you spend thinking about it those things is like giving someone free rent in your head.In…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #061 — Keep learning to slow aging!Over the years I've heard people attribute the end of a partnership – in marriage or in business – to "we just grew apart." From my experience, that's not true. People don't grow apart. One person outgrows the other.People tend to fall into…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #060 – Don't be a fool.When one craves something enough, one can tend to ignore all obvious evidence against that desire. We fool ourselves. With someone else we might play the skeptic, yet when counseling ourselves, we blindly trust our own judgement. Richard P. Feynman warned us against this:"The…
