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Are you addicted to adrenaline?
A few weeks ago, on a day jam-packed with emails and to-dos and a full day of facilitation for a client, I received a desperate email from a dear friend and colleague in London. She was scheduled to work with a client in three-days time, and was denied a visa to...
The leadership practice of loving life.
"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." ~Arthur Rubenstein I always cringe a bit when we write about love. It's a four-letter word and especially a four-letter word in the work world. But I think we need more of it anyway, so we write about it...
How to handle in-fighting on your team
When I resigned my job as a general manager, the hardest part was leaving a great team of people who exceeded their goals and worked well together. But it was not always that way. When I took on the role, I quickly learned that the managers who reported to me were far...
Take the leap out of analysis paralysis
"To change one's life: start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions." ~William James Sometimes we live with the status quo. For a long time. For no particular reason. And to our detriment. Sometimes we know we want to change things, but we hold back. Because...
Conflict is good – five ways to make it even better!
From the moment we wake up, we can be – and often are – in conflict with others. With our family members over how the day will go, with team members about the best next step on a project, with our manager over how to implement a new process, with colleagues about...
Motivation is an internal job
“You can take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.” ~Jeanette Rankin We know how others should act. We know what they need to do. We know, often without a shadow of doubt, the best plans for their future and personal development. The...
How to handle the “elephant in the middle of the living room”
We partner with clients to help their leadership teams have strategic (and necessary) conversations - the conversations they all know they need to have, and the conversations they all seem to be unable to have. Because there's usually that "elephant in the middle of...
The sheer joy of leaving things undone
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone." ~Lin Yutang There are some of us who live in overdrive. We may set a goal of slowing down, of taking time, of easing away from always pushing forward, but we often still...
Five key steps to reigniting your passion
Remember when you first got your job? Remember how excited you were? Remember when you first heard about your promotion, how you were bouncing off the walls and posting your news everywhere? What happened? When did your passion and excitement die away, and perhaps...
Find your “why”
“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.” ~Nietzsche I have friends, colleagues, clients, and family members who are all going through tough times. Lost jobs, reduced budgets, challenging work situations, even more challenging home situations – all...
Get off your butt
It is true that many of us sit for hours each day. According to Nilofer Merchant, in this short and powerful TED video, most of us sit for over nine hours in a day, more than we sleep. And it is true that sitting that much can cause a health crisis – sitting has been...
A mistake is a terrible thing to waste
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ~George Bernard Shaw I have clients (and colleagues, and friends, and family members...and myself at times) who are so afraid of messing up that they don't do...
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