Author: David Deck

We often ask the leaders we work with to major in the minors. Embrace the mundane work that comes with mastering your self, first and most. A fair amount of people probably don’t hire us because they might find this work unimportant. And others stop doing this work because they think they got it. I … Continue reading Day 107: Triple-A…

One of my clients has found flow. Things are going well and there’s nothing much to report on. This is so good AND a dangerous place to be. I reminded them that plenty of teams love this space because they feel like they’ve finally figured it out. However, the great ONE’s keep pushing. We will … Continue reading Day 106: When no one sees…

Want to do something tough? Try being an active listener. I was asked by a client to speak about active listening to his managers today. The more I thought about what I’d say, the more I realized how much of an oxymoron it would be do so. So instead of speaking about it, we practiced … Continue reading Day 105: Toughness…

What motivates your performance… do you love what you do OR fear losing what you have? I believe fear and love are the two sponsoring thoughts / root emotions to our actions. Fear contracts, love expands. Fear runs, love stays. Fear hides, love reveals. Fear hoards, love shares. Fear harms, love heals. Fear grasps, love … Continue reading Day 104: Performance-Aggressive…

My intention in practice today, with a group that is in the soup, was to simply connect. It never ceases to amaze me what happens when we slow down, have no to-do list, and just talk. Walls come down, the pulse slows, muscles relax and the energy follows. Today, it led us to the good … Continue reading Day 103: Adjust your mirrors…

Hitting a 100 mph fastball and fielding a curveball question from a customer, colleague or boss are both problems to be solved. According to Doug Lemov and his book titled The Coach's Guide to Teaching, super-human athletes or musicians aren’t as physically super as we think. His research shows their exceptional skill is not the … Continue reading Day 102: Problem solvers…

Some of my greatest strengths are also my biggest hurdles. Maybe you can relate. I am unreasonably aspirational and believe virtually anything is possible. This makes me a passionate fool at times. I'm good at finding the melody lines in the stories I hear or read. And yet, I'm terrible at reading my wife when … Continue reading Day 101: Burst toward our best…

Take inventory on who you are spending your time with. Go ahead, I’ll wait... Chances are you’ll see you are spending too much time with the problem children and the mediocre middle. Thanks to our sympathetic system, our natural tendency is to constantly mitigate and manage risk. This is not necessarily a bad thing when … Continue reading Day 100: ONE warrior…