This cast gives a guide balancing your professional countenance with your community relationships.

A few weeks ago on our Facebook page, we asked: what are you doing to use your professional skills to improve your community? Many people posted about the projects they were involved with from working with children to marketing for non-profits.

We absolutely support all your efforts to improve your communities. And, there are some cautions about your behaviors which prevent problems in both your professional and your community efforts.

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This cast describes how to make a decision effective by NOT working on other actions or plans after you've decided.

Too many of us feel good about a "decision" we've made (when actually it was a choice, and not a decision), and then we mess up the "decision" by failing to act aggressively on it. And one of the things that keeps us from being successful is we don't focus on the path we've chosen.

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Mark has been re-reading Peter Drucker's The Effective Executive for the billionth time lately. Every time he reads it, something different strikes him. This time he was looking to get some validation that Drucker believed that consensus is overrated (it is), and he stumbled across this gem. It's two simple sentences, but as only Drucker can do, they're powerful:

In fact, no decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility. Until then there are only good intentions.