Highfill Performance Group

Picture this (yes, I’m stealing this technique from Sophia on Golden Girls) – the place is a conference room, the year is 2010, and a sales support group and marketing group are battling over who will own the sales communications. Both sides present the reason why they should own the project, and verbally demean the capabilities [...]

So many articles are written on the art of perseverance, I thought I’d add some of my observations over my lifetime. Here are ten reasons why you should always choose perseverance over quitting.
 Quitters never get to:
1.  Have a Lifetime movie made about them. When was the last time you heard about “The Life and Times [...]

Sometimes I am just a big ol’ quitter. I admit it. When I was eleven years old, I quit Girl Scouts because I was tired of walking to the meetings and I heard the next badge had to be swimming and I was scared of the water. My brother and sister will tell you that [...]

Enthusiasm is the most irresistible force in nature. Period. Find a person who is enthusiastic about what they do, and you will find yourself absorbing some kind of kinetic energy. You walk away searching for the thing you can be that enthusiastic about.
Tom Peters, in his book The Little Big Things, makes enthusiasm the first [...]

My internet was down, again. No big deal, I only rely on my internet connection for my livelihood, and this was the third time in a week that it had gone down. Our phone lines were also down, which was not a surprise since we had lost phone lines at least six times in the [...]

To those of you who have been following our change journey together, we’ve spent the last three weeks following three signposts:
1. No Complaining
2. No Excuses
3. No Fear
Why are we talking about this change trifecta? Because, as Scott Peck said in the first line of The Road Less Traveled, “Life is difficult.” Positive perspectives make a [...]

This week our topic was “No Fear,” meaning that those who follow me on Linkedin, twitter and Facebook were asked to spend the week facing one small fear per day. I tended to do really small things, like bravely asking a woman who had cut in line at Arbies to please move to the end [...]