Does your team trust you?

Do they trust that you will:

• share the credit when things go well?
• have their backs when things go wrong?
• be honest with them about what’s going on in the company?
• make the right decision at crunch time?
• deal with problems quickly, fairly, and appropriately?

As my colleague, Hall of Fame speaker David Horsager, author of The Trust Edge: How Top Leaders Gain Faster Results, Deeper Relationships, and a Stronger Bottom Line, says,“Everything of value is built on trust.”

How ...

What do you do when you’re under pressure? How can you be at your best when it matters most? If only there were something that could reduce that pressure—immediately.

Well, I’ve got good news for you. There is something that can immediately reduce your pressure, and it’s not tequila. First of all, tequila can be expensive. And second, tequila is not always around. The technique I’m going to tell you about is absolutely free, and it’s something that is always available ...

The single-engine Cessna 172 was about 1,500 feet above the Pacific Ocean when that engine stopped.

I still don’t know why it stopped. All I know is that I was the pilot and the sole occupant of the plane. I had just taken off from a small airport in Western Washington. The pre-check had been routine. The takeoff had been uneventful. The sky was blue, the wind was calm. It was a beautiful day for flying.

And then the engine stopped.

What would ...

Twenty-seven minutes and fifty-five seconds.

That’s the time I had to hit—exactly—every week for fifteen years.

27:55. Not a second more. Not a second less. 27:55.

Welcome to the world of television production, where the clock is your master. You’re always aware of it. You go on the air at 11:30pm, every Saturday, whether you’re ready or not. Whether you feel like it or not. And, exactly twenty-seven minutes and fifty-five seconds later, you fade to black. Every week.

You’ve felt the pressure of ...

You’re a fraud. That’s the bad news.

You’re not very good at your job. Sure, you’ve been lucky so far. You’ve gotten away with it. You’ve managed to fool everyone around you.

But sooner or later they’re going to find out. You know this, right? The charade can’t last forever.

Sooner or later, they’re going to figure out that you’re a fraud.

That’s the bad news.

The good news is that, in all likelihood, none of this is true.

Welcome to Imposter ...