“Stop and smell the roses.” That’s advice we’ve heard all our lives. It’s so familiar, in fact, that we may have dismissed it or joked about it on those rare occasions when we actually took a few sniffs. But you…
Your first step is the most important one – take it right now!
As the blues song tells us, “Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.” The lyrics say something we know is true but don’t always admit: Getting someplace great requires a lot of work (and maybe even…
Successful Partnering Is Always a Win-Win
I’ve long admired Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Effective People – particularly his habit of “thinking win-win,” which means, simply, creating relationships in which everyone benefits. For more than 30 years, BD+C’s success and growth has been sustained by that…
Looking is Easy, Seeing is Hard
Some years ago, I made a point of taping something to my monitor that I wanted to be sure I saw every day. It’s Stephen Covey’s time-management matrix: According to Covey, every task we face falls into one of the…