Is this a misstep or an opportunity? You’ve joined a new organization, and been given an amazing opportunity. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime, a recognition of your skills and experience, something for which you’ve been waiting for years. So you dive right in…and scrape your face on the bottom of the pool, in the […]
If you want to change what people do, you need to change what they think. If you want to change their thinking, you have to change how they feel…and underlying feelings is emotions… […]
It was colleagues at UK business school Ashridge who helped me see how powerful an experiential metaphor for leadership dance can be. Here’s why.
Social media – Facebook being a prime example of it – is a tool like any other. How effectively are you wielding it?
Sometimes we are prompted to do unusual things that our logical mind tells us are dumb, even impracticable. Sometimes those things turn out to move us in directions we would not have allowed ourselves to go, that serve us in ways we could not have imagined. Here’s how one of those worked out for me.
It is better for your health, it makes the best use of you, and you get to live a life you love. Why would you not design your business (or your career) to suit you?
Are you charged with bringing more innovation into your organization? Looking for a new approach, an edge that will keep you in the forefront? Then find your highly sensitive people, because they will notice things others don’t; and think differently.
If you are not free to be unique, you are not free to innovate. Because it takes many different types of people to innovate…
If you are one of the ~20% of the population who is highly sensitive, you have probably heard (ad nauseam, since you were a child) “oh, you’re too sensitive”, or “what are you worrying about that for”, or even “hmm, I have never thought about that”. You have probably felt mystified by others (and they by you); […]
What is your Unassailable Competitive Advantage? Is it the top-level school you went to? Your sales levels, or how many times you have hit your targets at work? How many companies you have started? Or even who your family is and the weight your name carries? These are external advantages that you can put in your cv, resume, or calling card, but […]