“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.” –Mihaly Csikszentmihaly I recently read that Accenture will abandon their annual performance review system in place […]

Performance…it seems these days this word tends to be on most people’s minds. Whether in business, politics or yes, even sports. Performance is one of those terms that has become genericized in our culture. In most organizations, performance usually falls somewhere in the area of performance management systems, operational efficiencies and productivity. With new and […]

Have you ever been given a project or challenging assignment and you begin to ask yourself the “what if” questions? Or perhaps right from the beginning of the project you “know” it will end in disaster?  Well, the majority of the time when we start to over think something, or spend hours planning and strategizing, […]

Athletes are competitive by nature with both themselves and their opponents. They establish goals, create plan on how to achieve these goals, and then begin executing the plan. Regardless of how we phrase it, whether it’s setting stretch goals, establishing reach goals, going head-to-head with your competition, humans, by nature, are competitive. Even those who […]

What really makes people and teams perform at their best? Several factors are involved: good talent, great habits, and a performance-based culture. When we read all the literature on human performance and organizational development, we start to establish a greater sense of what really allows these people and teams to perform at their best. The […]