YOUR TWO BIGGEST ENEMIES IN BUSINESS...

Warning! No matter what business you are in, you must always be looking out for your two biggest enemies:

1. your competition
2. your own damn self

I’m constantly coaching clients how to get out of their own way.

Morris Shechtman, author of Fifth Wave Leadership: The Internal Frontier, also recognizes this tendency for self-sabotage -- even in the top executives in the Fortune 500 companies he does consulting for.

Shechtman explains:“If you want to keep rising up in your career, you must recognize your ‘familiars’ -- your amazingly persistent collection of attitudes rooted in your childhood -- which cause you to act in predictable ways -- which hold you back from moving forward.”

Through workshops and consulting, Shechtman helps executives confront long buried demons keeping them from optimal work performance. He does this with candid humor and a no-nonsense list of 75 Surprising Truths to Live Your Workplace Life by.

My favorites are below:

1. Teamwork Is A Result Of Conflict And Confrontation -- Not Consensus And Agreement.

2. Feedback Is Constructive When Its Goal Is To Give People Information That Helps Them Learn, Grow, And Change.

3. Nothing Will Lower Your Credibility Faster Than Avoiding Conflict.

4. Clarity Creates AdvocatesAndEnemies.

5. All Change Is Loss—It Doesn’t Matter Whether It’s “Good” Change… Or “Bad” Change

6. The Amount of Time Spent Together Is One Of The Poorest Indicators Of Intimacy Achieved.

7. Intimacy Is Impossible To Achieve Without A Commitment To Engage In Self-Disclosure And Conflict.

8. The Two Key Skills In Life Are The Ability To Make Decisions And The Ability To Build Relationships. Everything Else Is A Distant Third.

9. If You’re Not Judgmental, You Don’t Really Care.

10. Goals Are Where You’re Going. Values Are How You’re Going To Get There.

11. Anger Is The Outward Manifestation Of Disappointment. Disappointment Is The Gap Between What You Have And What You Want.

12. Disappointment Is The Catalyst For The Next Stage Of Growth.

13. There Are No Business Problems—There Are Only Personal Issues Which Get Manifested At Work.

14. Successful People Use Feedback Immediately.

15. What Stops People In Their Careers Is Not That They’ve Gone As Far As They Can Go, But That They’ve Gone As Far As Their Familiars Will Allow.