Alden’s Latest Thinking
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...
Best Business Book of 2019
Soundview editors have selected Unstoppable Teams as one of the 30 best business books of the year! Soundview gives you key insights from top business authors by summarizing their books into 20-minute text and audio, as well as utilizing their expertise in webinars,...
SUCCESS Magazine | 7 Traits of High-Performing Team Members
Having led all kinds of different teams in the past 25 years, from sports and Navy SEALs to companies and charities, I have discovered seven traits that characterize unstoppable teammates. These are the general traits required—the must-haves for powerful team...
How to Empower Your Team to Innovate
As you solve each problem that surfaces in your business or personal life, take the time to ask, “Is there a better way to do this?” Great teams and leaders are constantly innovating, improving their systems, and inventing new ways to do things better. With the advent...
The Biggest Obstacle to Success
The biggest obstacle to personal and team success is the ego. It can lull us into thinking we are better than we are, it can block us from accepting better ideas, and it can turn away the very people who could help us succeed. In building a team, a team leader’s first...
Is Your Team Unstoppable or Just Available?
Here’s a question for you: do you think leading a team of volunteers is different from leading a team of employees (who get paid to work) or a team of Navy SEALs? Before you answer, think about how you would treat volunteers—people who have decided to give up free...
Expand the Definition of Team to Enlarge Your Circle of Influence
No team can do it alone, whether you’re conducting a mission or creating new products. In fact, when a team authentically proves how much they care about other people, they experience an exponential return on their efforts, which I call the 10x advantage. Unstoppable...
Educate and Empower Teammates for Bigger Leadership Roles
Whether you’re a recording artist or high-tech entrepreneur, having a one-hit-wonder is great, but repeating it is even better. If the Perfect Pushup had been an album, it would have received multiple platinum awards within its first year. And, over the next eight...
Respect: Acting Like You Mean It
Being the boss, having an impressive title, and sitting at the top of the organizational chart will gain you only a thin veneer of respect from the members of your team. If your actions do not support your position of authority, you will be ineffective as a leader. If...
