by Marc Mawhinney | Apr 15, 2019 | Blog
A brand new episode of “Natural Born Coaches” was just released, with my guest Talmar Anderson from Boss Actions. In this episode, we covered things like: Learn to let go, delegate and hireThe boss provides the tools, but the team builds successIdentifying...
by Marc Mawhinney | Apr 14, 2019 | Blog
Jim Collins once talked about the right way to build a team, using seats on a bus to make his point. When discussing great companies, he said: “They start by getting the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right...
by Marc Mawhinney | Apr 13, 2019 | Blog
There’s a famous study that illustrates how people miss things when they’re focusing on something else. For it, participants were shown a video of basketball players (half in white shirts, the others in black ones) passing a ball back and forth. The...
by Marc Mawhinney | Apr 12, 2019 | Blog
It’s been a rough start to the 2019 baseball season for my Toronto Blue Jays. Until the last two games, they couldn’t hit the ball or score, and wins have been rare. At times they’ve resembled the Bad News Bears, and it’s been...
by Marc Mawhinney | Apr 11, 2019 | Blog
You might hate someone’s guts with a passion, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t learn something from him/her. Take the world of politics, for example. The mere mention of Donald Trump’s name could make a person froth at the mouth and fly...
by Marc Mawhinney | Apr 10, 2019 | Blog
At one time, my discovery calls were an hour long … Then I decided to cut them down to 30 minutes each (and often the calls were wrapped up in 15 or 20 minutes). Surprisingly, I got just as much done with the shorter calls. Why? When they were an hour long, the...
