Category Archives: leadership

A Gift For You: Twitter for Newbies

Posted in: Brand, celebration, leadership, productivity, social media, style, success | January 21, 2013 at 1:45 pm , by Dave Kaiser

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At Dark Matter Consulting, we help our clients create Extraordinary lives. Part of having an Extraordinary life is being able to create a Network of people. Part of creating a Network is meeting people, and Twitter is a great way...

Goldilocks and Productivity

Posted in: leadership, productivity, risk, success, Time Management, uncategorized | January 16, 2013 at 10:30 am , by Dave Kaiser

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Businesspeople and entrepreneurs often have what I like to cal a “Goldilocks Problem” when it comes to getting things done. Some tasks feel TOO BIG: launching a new product, designing and implementing a new marketing campaign, overhauling their IT systems....

Entrepreneurs Create Value, A Tale of Cigars and Coffee

Posted in: celebration, leadership, listening, marketing, risk, success, uncategorized | December 28, 2012 at 3:44 pm , by Dave Kaiser

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So, I was sitting at the Cigar King in Skokie while my daughter was at Volleyball practice, having a nice chat with a gentlemen I had just met named Curt. At the end of the chat, I gave him a...

Two Types of “Truth”

Posted in: Humor, leadership, Luck, risk, success | December 8, 2012 at 3:11 pm , by Dave Kaiser

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So, I’m listening to an audio version of the book The Snowball, a biography of Warren Buffet (I highly recommend, by the way). In it, one of Warren’s early mentors talks about the difference between Class One and Class Two...

Don’t Make it Worse

Posted in: change, conflict, Humor, leadership, listening, risk, success | December 8, 2012 at 12:02 am , by Dave Kaiser

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You’ve had bad days, right? Of course, we all have. Have you had the day where things just keep getting worse, and everything you do just make a crappy day even crappier? (that was my afternoon, today) And just when...

It’s Out Of My Control…NOT

Posted in: conflict, emotion, Humor, leadership, risk, success, uncategorized, Values | November 30, 2012 at 4:27 pm , by Dave Kaiser

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One of my clients emailed me the day before our coaching call and asked to reschedule. She mentioned that a client had asked her to reschedule. Fine of course, these things happen. Then she said it’s “out of my control.”...

The Tiny Word That Can Make or Break Your Organization

Posted in: conflict, emotion, leadership, productivity, risk, success, Time Management | November 16, 2012 at 9:03 am , by Dave Kaiser

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If you ever want to wreck an organization completely, from the inside, while driving its people insane, it’s actually fairly easy to do. Just tell the employees that they’re not allowed to say NO, that every task is important and...

Why You Procrastinate, and What To Do About It

Posted in: emotion, leadership, productivity, risk, Time Management, uncategorized | November 10, 2012 at 9:01 am , by Dave Kaiser

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We have all been tormented by procrastination at points in our lives. Maybe as kids, when we waited until the last minute to start that science project. Maybe as adults, when we wait until the last minute to start that...

Acceptance, as Modeled by the Presidential Campaigns

Posted in: change, conflict, emotion, leadership, productivity, risk, success | October 31, 2012 at 2:15 pm , by Dave Kaiser

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One of the hardest things we can do in life is to accept things as they are, recognizing when something is not worth our time and effort. It goes against our very grain, to give up, to admit defeat, yet...

Changing (Emotional) Gears

Posted in: celebration, change, conflict, emotion, leadership, risk, sacred, success | October 24, 2012 at 12:01 pm , by Dave Kaiser

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Each one of us has at least one emotion that we just can’t handle, so we avoid it and repress it, and as a result, it causes us no end of trouble. For some it’s sadness, for others, fear, for...

I began working with Dark Matter Consulting, because I wanted to take my career to the next level but lacked a clear vision for how to proceed. DMC helped by: Holding me accountable to my own goals Helping elicit strategy and vision that I could not easily articulate Provided insight based...

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David is a very strong coach; the type of coach that won’t let you get away with accepting anything less than your true potential. —Kateneh Sherkat, Founder, KASA Human Resource Consulting...

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The perspective work you facilitated gave me a whole new outlook on life. It’s brought excitement and energy back in, helped me tap a deeper well of energy I didn’t know was there. Thank you, thank you, thank you. —Michael Cervino, VP and Founder, Beaconfire Consulting...

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Category Archives: leadership

Goldilocks and Productivity

Entrepreneurs Create Value, A Tale of Cigars and Coffee

Two Types of “Truth”

Don’t Make it Worse

It’s Out Of My Control…NOT

The Tiny Word That Can Make or Break Your Organization

Why You Procrastinate, and What To Do About It

Acceptance, as Modeled by the Presidential Campaigns

Changing (Emotional) Gears

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