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Announcing: “The Lunch & Learn Show” Featuring Carolann Jacobs and Jennifer Luney

Sep 2

Carolann Jacobs on September 2nd, 2010

Guys, I am excited to announce the launch of “The Lunch and Learn Show,” a new internet TV show about being a better leader and creating business relationships that enrich our lives. We’ll be on Thursdays at noon central time, and of course you can always download the replay. Here’s where we will be: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lunch-learn-with-carolann-jacobs-and-jennifer-luney [...]

Creating a Reality That Doesn’t Exist

Aug 3

Carolann Jacobs on August 3rd, 2010

As humans, we make sense of our world through story. In other words, we create a reality for ourselves that doesn’t exist, in reality. I attended a workshop last weekend with Human Change Technology Expert, S. Lane Pierce, and he cited Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi the author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience who theorizes that [...]

Is Humiliation a Leadership Tool?

Jul 30

Carolann Jacobs on July 30th, 2010

When I first got my Saint Bernard, Ponca, the biggest behavioral challenge we had was that she beat the other two dogs up. Bloodfang and Knight, the existing members of Team Dog, didn’t understand her boundaries and rules because their rules were different. One rule on Team Dog was that water is an infinite, shared [...]

You Couldn’t Pay Me Enough to Do This Job

Jul 22

Carolann Jacobs on July 22nd, 2010

Update: Col. McCraw from DPS did respond to my email. The short version is that the mental and physical demands tend to weed out a portion of the new hires, and they are studying other reasons why trainees leave in the first year. I was watching a news story the other night about Texas DPS. [...]

How Powerpoint Dumbs Down Your Organization

Jul 20

Carolann Jacobs on July 20th, 2010

Powerpoint doesn’t kill brain cells…. people kill brain cells. Much like a gun and its ability to harm, Powerpoint provides a very effective method for making people stupid. Here’s why – it provides the means and mechanism for dumping (some might call it vomiting) lists of facts (bullet points) all over the audience. This is [...]

Can’t Stand Working With That Jerk

Jul 15

Carolann Jacobs on July 15th, 2010

As a managewhich, one of the more frustrating challenges is dealing with people who do not play nicely together in the sandbox. Most of managewhich’s deal with it in one of three very ineffective ways: Ignore it, and hope it goes away. Do their best to separate them, so that there is minimal disruption [...]

Afraid for your Livelihood? Now’s not the time to hunker down.

Jul 13

Carolann Jacobs on July 13th, 2010

This could also be titled Playing to Win vs. Playing Not to Lose. What tends to happen in frightening circumstances is that we pull in, physically and mentally. We play not to lose. Making decisions out of fear is the hallmark. Many times, we know these decisions aren’t good ones, but we make and [...]

Life by Design vs Life By Default

Jul 8

Carolann Jacobs on July 8th, 2010

Living the Success Principles #4 Principle #3 in Jack Canfield’s The Success Principles is “Decide What You Want.” This, folks, is your vision. What do you want to be, do and have? My corollary on that is “Who do you want to be?” or maybe it’s “Who do you have to be to do and [...]

Escape the Drama Triangle

Jul 1

Carolann Jacobs on July 1st, 2010

Have you guys ever noticed how a lot of what I yap about here on the blog about business really translates back to life? If you haven’t noticed, then I want to highlight the point today. One of the books on my shelf is The Power of TED (again, thank you Ken Abrams for turning [...]

Be Clear Why You’re Here

Jun 29

Carolann Jacobs on June 29th, 2010

Living the Success Principles #3 I haven’t written about my journey on the success principles in three months (oh my goodness!!!), and this is a good illustration about how time passes without forward movement. In other words, a vision without any action is a dream. To be fair and honest, I am doing between [...]

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