by Gary Covert | Feb 20, 2023 | ALPHA Performance, Business Development, Leadership
After a move to a new neighborhood, we tried out a new dentist. But this new dentist only spoke to me from behind. (One of my big pet peeves for dentists.) She did not take the time to come around and talk to me face to face. I had no clue who she was as a person. The...
by Gary Covert | Aug 23, 2020 | ALPHA Performance, Leadership
Those of you who have worked with me will likely be familiar with Tim Gallwey’s performance formula. His simple, but insightful formula is that our performance equals our potential minus our interferences. It basically means we all have potential, but that might show... by Gary Covert | May 16, 2018 | ALPHA Performance
While low engagement is flogged as a leading cause of poor business performance, incompetence is an obvious, but often, down-played factor. Leaders don’t like to talk about it. Even “experts” like to gloss over it. When relating my observation about the cause of an... by Gary Covert | May 9, 2018 | ALPHA Performance
When people say they are not creative they are practicing a form of self-amputation. Creativity is not limited to artists. Creativity is not limited to technology or products. Creativity can be applied to how an organization will deliver, to whom it will deliver, and... by Gary Covert | Dec 11, 2017 | ALPHA Performance, Leadership
The news is full of reports that the US economy has reached full employment. And yet engagement, despite the hype around about increasingly complex technology solutions, remains stubbornly low. If “what get measured, gets managed” is true then why has this been such... by Gary Covert | Oct 22, 2017 | ALPHA Performance, Leadership
Today’s political environment brings out the fact that we need to be tolerant of a viewpoints. This should continue and increase. In the world of work, there are lots of areas that would benefit the organization if we were LESS tolerant. Here are several that come to...
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