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How do you start implementing the Clear and Open code in your business and your life? In this final episode of a four-part series, we hear examples of how the Clear and Open Code can be applied in both a workplace setting or management situation and your personal relationships.

Do you consistently find yourself delaying replies to emails or texts? Are you putting off talking to employees or clients because you either don’t have an answer to their question or are avoiding the discomfort of the conversation?   In this third installment from a four-part series on procrastination, we talk about communication and how it relates to integrity. After listening to this, you won’t look at customer service or the expectations you have for employees and business colleagues the same.

Are you sick and tired of having to remind your team to get something done on time? In this second installment of the series, we take a look at how being a consistent procrastinator goes against the basis of integrity. We also delve into what you need to know as a supervisor to ensure your employees hold up their end of the deal by doing what they say they are going to when they say they will do it.

What are you procrastinating? In this first episode of a four-part series, we will discuss the two elements of procrastination—fear and control—and how they come together to form this mess so many people suffer from. Plus, we’ll look at how to undo or unlearn this behavior. It’s a good listen for just about anyone, both managers and employees alike.

What does this mean and how does it relate to immaturity? Well, in the podcast we discuss how being offended is generally related to your own personal embarrassment or shame. It is a protection mechanism that many people rely upon and one that comes up in just about every type of situation in life, not only in business. This is yet another truth bomb session from this must-listen series.

This is the second part of a three-part series on maturity. In this episode, we take a look at happiness and the lies we tell ourselves to protect our need to be comfortable. Then we dig deeper to discover different ways in which we are all immature and what you can do change it. This is a must-listen episode full of tons of information, truth bombs, and discomfort. You’ll definitely want to listen in.

This is the start of a three part series on maturity—or, in some cases, the lack thereof. Just like the words integrity and responsibility, the term maturity is thrown around quite a bit. Over the next few episodes, we are going to look deeper and discover that the whole concept is about a willingness and ability to live in reality and accept the consequences that happen when you don’t. Keep listening to learn more. This episode is from a recent weekly member webcast. For more information about the many benefits of Clear and Open Membership and how to get the help you need in conversations likethis as well as access to powerful online courses, go to clearandopen.com.

This is the finale of the Trying vs. Doing series and we’re going to get real. If you’re trying at something and failing, getting real means honestly considering that maybe you just don’t care. Many people waste a ton of time and energy pretending that they care about something. Often we unconsciously deceive ourselves and others with “good intentions” that won’t ever pan out because fundamentally we don’t care. What happens when you embrace that? What happens if you get curious about exploring what you really care about? Keep listening to find out. Listen to find out more. This episode is from a recent weekly member webcast. For more information about the many benefits of Clear and Open Membership and how to get the help you need in conversations likethis as well as access to powerful online courses, go to clearandopen.com.

This episode is part three of the spontaneous discussion that erupted when a handful of my members showed up late to a webcast and I decided to make a teaching out of it. Timeliness is usually about everything except timeliness. It’s about all the choices you made up to the point where you’re suddenly running late. People who are willing to examine those choices that get to excellence. Are you one of those people? Do you want to be? Keep listening? Listen to find out more. This episode is from a recent weekly member webcast. For more information about the many benefits of Clear and Open Membership and how to get the help you need in conversations likethis as well as access to powerful online courses, go to clearandopen.com.

The episode continues using the tardiness of my leader group as a way to explore the paradigmatic difference between trying and doing. Most people “try” and create “less bad” results. If you want great results, trying doesn’t cut it. It’s not semantics, it’s about attitude. Are you ready to get yours adjusted?Listen to find out more. This episode is from a recent weekly member webcast. For more information about the many benefits of Clear and Open Membership and how to get the help you need in conversations likethis as well as access to powerful online courses, go to clearandopen.com.

Want to hear me hold my leader group accountable for showing up late and make them squirm? Here’s your chance! Oh, and you can learn something critical about how to change anything as well. As Yoda said, “Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.” He was right and people love to quote him. Want to actually learn to embody that jedi wisdom? Or do you just want to watch movies about other people doing it?Listen to find out more. This episode is from a recent weekly member webcast. For more information about the many benefits of Clear and Open Membership and how to get the help you need in conversations likethis as well as access to powerful online courses, go to clearandopen.com.

Let’s face it, most people spend most of their time at work. And this includes both managers and employees. When you experience the paradigm shift that the things you do throughout your day are designed to help you improve, you realize that getting up and going to the office isn’t just about collecting a paycheck. It’s really allowing you to go to a place where every day you get to work on becoming a better version of yourself—your own personal dojo.Listen to find out more. This episode is from a recent weekly member webcast. For more information about the many benefits of Clear and Open Membership and how to get the help you need in conversations likethis as well as access to powerful online courses, go to clearandopen.com.

Who are you wanting to become as a person and how are you using your job to become that? In this episode, we are going to explore how you relate to your job and why this matters in terms of healthy self-interest. We are also going to take this thought process one step further by exploring why meaning trumps money for your younger employees and what you can do to help them become fully engaged in what they do for your business. This is the second episode in our thought-provoking series on managing to self-interest and you won’t want to miss it!   Listen to find out more.   This episode is from a recent weekly member webcast. Members get a ton of different ways to become better professionals, including attendance to the live courses I teach. Beginning January 11, 2018, I’ll begin teaching an eleven week course called How to Manage and Be Managed: The Missing Manual.   Management is like parenting: many people do it and they mostly have no idea what they’re doing, but they somehow make it work. The result?

Contrary to popular belief, the younger generation of employees isn’t necessarily worse or as different as you might think they are. Instead, they an enviable sense of self-interest. In this episode, we will discuss why there’s no such thing as a selfless act and the distinctions between serving needs in a healthy way and greed. This is a game-changing way of looking at the world that will affect not only your management style, but your perception of every charitable act you’ve ever seen.   Listen to find out more.   This episode is from a recent weekly member webcast. For more information about the many benefits of Clear and Open Membership and how to get the help you need in conversations like this as well as access to powerful online courses, go to clearandopen.com.

One of the reasons excellence is so rare and elusive in our world is because it’s so deeply misunderstood. Consider that you don’t create excellence any more than you grow a plant. If that were so, then where is your power and influence over excellence? What orientation toward excellence is best to precipitate it?   I’m very excited to announce the release of my ebook, “Cut the Bullshit: Solve Your Problems By Getting Real.” It’s full of direct, practical advice related to getting employees engaged, hiring right the first time, how to create a culture of radical responsibility, and a lot more. For a limited time, I’m giving this ebook away for nothing. So if you have some spare nothing, go to clearandopen.com/ctb to download it. That’s CTB standing for Cut the Bullshit, a free ebook to reward and support my loyal listeners.

This is part three of our four part series taken from a member webcast where I was teaching the live version of the Open to Excellence course. Production is currently underway to turn this into an online course in near future.   What does sacrifice mean to you? Are you sacrificing something to get something else? Is that really a sacrifice, or a means to an end? And what about accountability? Do you relate to it as a tool or a burden? What if you had to change your relationship to sacrifice and accountability to achieve excellence?   I’m very excited to announce the release of my ebook, “Cut the Bullshit: Solve Your Problems By Getting Real.” It’s full of direct, practical advice related to getting employees engaged, hiring right the first time, how to create a culture of radical responsibility, and a lot more. For a limited time, I’m giving this ebook away for nothing. So if you have some spare nothing, go to clearandopen.com/ctb to download it. That’s CTB standing for Cut the Bullshit, a free ebook to r

What is excellence, anyway? We have beliefs and ideas about it, but are they true? Are they productive? We all want the rewards of excellence, but what about the willingness to do the work? What if your picture of what excellence looks and feels like is actually in your way of embodying it?   This episode is from a member webcast where I was teaching the live version of the Open to Excellence course. Production is currently underway to turn this into an online course, so stay tuned about that.   I’m very excited to announce the release of my ebook, “Cut the Bullshit: Solve Your Problems By Getting Real.” It’s full of direct, practical advice related to getting employees engaged, hiring right the first time, how to create a culture of radical responsibility, and a lot more. For a limited time, I’m giving this ebook away for nothing. So if you have some spare nothing, go to clearandopen.com/ctb to download it. That’s CTB standing for Cut the Bullshit, a free ebook to reward and support my loyal listeners. T

Your conditioning about responsibility is inextricably intertwined with your ability to be excellent, because it’s in the critical moments where radical responsibility is called for, that we either rise to excellence or not. How do you muster the strength you need in those moments?   I’m very excited to announce the release of my ebook, “Cut the Bullshit: Solve Your Problems By Getting Real.” It’s full of direct, practical advice related to getting employees engaged, hiring right the first time, how to create a culture of radical responsibility, and a lot more. For a limited time, I’m giving this ebook away for nothing. So if you have some spare nothing, go to clearandopen.com/ctb to download it. That’s CTB standing for Cut the Bullshit, a free ebook to reward and support my loyal listeners. Thanks so much for being one.

Talking about one’s weaknesses is uncomfortable, right? But why? Is it inherently uncomfortable? What if that’s a belief that could change? What if we’re actually making it difficult in a way it doesn’t have to be? What would your life look like then? What would be possible that isn’t now? I’m very excited to announce the release of my ebook, “Cut the Bullshit: Solve Your Problems By Getting Real.” It’s full of direct, practical advice related to getting employees engaged, hiring right the first time, how to create a culture of radical responsibility, and a lot more. For a limited time, I’m giving this ebook away for nothing. So if you have some spare nothing, go to clearandopen.com/ctb to download it.

In this episode, I tell the story of the most embarrassing moment of my teenage years and how I survived to learn from the experience. And if that isn’t reason enough to listen, we explore the power of turning toward discomfort and being strong enough to undergo and overcome shame. What if the feeling of shame was actually a reason to engage in something, not avoid it? What if subjecting yourself to embarrassment, when there’s a good reason for it, is actually a powerful way to learn?   I’m very excited to announce the release of my ebook, “Cut the Bullshit: Solve Your Problems By Getting Real.” It’s full of direct, practical advice related to getting employees engaged, hiring right the first time, how to create a culture of radical responsibility, and a lot more. For a limited time, I’m giving this ebook away for nothing. So if you have some spare nothing, go to clearandopen.com/ctb to download it. That’s CTB standing for Cut the Bullshit, a free ebook to reward and support my loyal listeners.