Here are the first two of ten areas for personal and professional consideration and reflection. More powerful, personal suggestions to come.

Change your mindset, your personal and professional philosophy of work.

1. All problems are management and organizational problems before they are any other kind of problem.

a. Start where managers and leaders are rather than where you are.

b. Look at the world from their perspective first.

The Bad News Eradicator, a continuing Executive Action feature will show you how to avoid non-communication, debates, arguments, anger and contention in your speaking, writing and your life. One of the most powerful strategies I teach is the eradication of negative language, phrases and statements. If you want to have a truly better life, you need to learn how to eradicate negative language from everything that you do. Everyone you know will notice, and like it.

One of the simplest and most powerful ways to help those we advise, understand and learn from the nature of a scenario is to create a simple, sensible, readable, teachable case study based on real circumstances delivered in a productive, constructive, abbreviated format. This example is useful and powerful because it tells a story, that is itself unusual, even barely believable, but never the less true. Each section is part of the lesson this example teaches.