Alden’s Latest Thinking
There’s No App for Persistence
Actually, there are goal trackers, habit motivators, smart reminders, and all manner of electronic assistants designed to help you establish habits and achieve goals. If you haven’t been to the App Store lately, a quick search will bring up dozens of them. There might...
Forbes: Unstoppable Teams named Best Book on Leadership for 2019
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Nick Carrier’s Best You Podcast
Source: Nick Carrier's Best You Podcast
Training Strategies to Be Unstoppable
Leadership training and team building strategies are among the most debated topics in companies, nonprofits, and community action groups—no matter what field, industry, environment, or sector in which you wish to build a team. It is my view that if your team involves...
Seek Expert Advice to Be Unstoppable
The first action we always took as SEALs after learning about a mission assignment was to seek expert advice. It was also the first action we took after deciding what kind of product we wanted to launch at Perfect Fitness. The premise is simple: Learn from those who...
The Top 12 Unstoppable Posts of 2019
As I noted in my last post, I am a goal setter and regularly take stock of where I've been and where I'm heading at intervals throughout the year. I'm on a mission to share my High Performance Frameworks to help leaders and high performance teams achieve more than...
As You May Know By Now, I Am A Goal Setter
And, around this time of year, it's a tradition for me to set three series of goals: Professional, Physical, and Personal (this includes Family). In all cases, I involve the people who are going to help me achieve these goals. Every year my wife (and invaluable...
The Essential Actions to Building Unstoppable Teams
Care is the soil from which teams grow; a leader’s focus provides the fertilizer. Unpack that statement, and you’ll understand what it takes to grow a group of individuals into an Unstoppable Team. I get it, people aren’t plants—although sometimes you might find...
Where You Put Your Focus Will Determine Your Actions and Outcomes
Each time you confront a challenge, the first thing you must do is take charge of the conversation inside your head. You need to build a strong platform to lead others. You need to be able to keep your focus steady even when the voices around you are telling you to...
Are You A Straddler or All-in?
In a previous post, I wrote about the seven traits that characterize unstoppable teammates. I call one of them “perspective” because it reflects the way a person responds to life. Perspective comes from experience—how a person thinks and has responded to past...
