What's Don Thinking?

The "boiled frog" laboratory experiment helps educate people on how slow, incremental changes may not be noticed until it’s too late. In the experiment, if you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will jump right out. But if you put it in cool water that you slowly heat...

Anyone learning leadership from business schools, bestselling books, and motivational speakers knows that great leaders:

1. Show empathy
2. Are good listeners
3. Embrace change
4. Create a mission or vision
5. Develop their followers
6. Communicate
7. Build trust
8. Articulate clear goals and roles
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 NOTE: Smithsonian published that Merriam-Webster’s 2023 Word of the Year Is ‘Authentic’ - As technology manipulates what's real, we need to search for the truth.

We all want our leaders, products, and services to be authentic. We want the qualities in our life to be...

Good management consultants, trainers, coaches, speakers, and industry experts inspire us to be winners. Many use popular metaphors to motivate us. One I hear a lot at conferences and in books is “you gotta be the lead dog.” You probably heard these phrases too in books and at...

How often have you heard a keynote speaker or management expert preach how small changes in leadership make a big impact? They're referring to something called the Butterfly Effect: a physics concept that the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil can set off a tornado in...