by MAI Team | Business, Career, Education, Employees, Feedback, Heroes, High Performance, Inner Strength, Leadership, Motivation, Team Performance
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower And just how, exactly, does one do that? It’s the $64,000 question, isn’t it? Chris Lowney, a Jesuit seminarian turned investment...
by MAI Team | Business, Career, Employees, Flourish, High Performance, Positive Psychology, Team Dynamics, Team Performance, Teamwork
Last week an article by Edward Lawler III titled Preventing the Loss of Key Talent was posted on Forbes. Ed Lawler and his Center for Effective Organizations has been recognized by Fortune and other publications as one of the leading management research...
by MAI Team | Emotional Intelligence, Energy, Flourish, Flourishing, Happiness, High Performance, Inner Strength, Intelligence & Abilities, Mindfulness, Motivation, Perseverance, Self Confidence, Strengths, Team Performance, The Mind, Values
My son is now a teenager and as a result is allowed access to the fitness center. He recently started working with a personal trainer. As you might imagine, a 13 year old has his own unique fitness goals (in his case a couple related to hockey and several related to...
by MAI Team | Energy, Flourish, Happiness, High Performance, Intelligence, Intelligence & Abilities, Mindfulness, Motivation, Positive Psychology, Self Confidence, Team Dynamics, Team Performance, Values
At the core of each of us are our values – important and enduring beliefs about what is important. Once ignited, our instinctive drives can sustain us when we need to set aside our most natural behavior, as shown in this TED video by Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The...
by MAI Team | Conflict, Feedback, High Performance, Motivation, Team Dynamics, Team Performance, Teamwork
This riveting clip from “The West Wing” shows a fictional response to Dr. Jacob, a thinly disguised “Dr. Laura Schlessinger”, the highly prescriptive and directive talk-show host who vigorously dispenses advice to people who call in to her...
by MAI Team | Coaching, Conflict, Conflicting Ideas, Positive Psychology, Strengths, Team Dynamics, Team Performance, Teamwork, Values
Steve Jobs’ authorized biography by Walter Isaacson paints a vivid picture of a man with vision, purpose and one whose single-minded focus brought us an ingenious array of beautifully designed and intuitive products. Also apparent, to misquote Shakespeare in Othello,...