Jul
11
Choosing Candor in Business and The Perils of Making Any Other Choice
It’s been a rough two weeks for me and my conviction around the availability of candor in business.You know how you can see a really scary horror movie and replay scary images for months after? Well, I’m having that kind of post-traumatic experience after reading two business books. Go figure.First...
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Jul
11
Choosing to See Our Personality Patterns as Gifts
At the end of a virtual event Sue Heilbronner and I co-facilitated this week, one of the attendees expressed what I heard as dissatisfaction with the call. I immediately went below the line. The person’s reaction sounded highly reactive to me. I heard her as jogging around the three roles on...
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Jul
11
Before Making New Year’s Resolutions, Explore Your Unconscious Commitments
It’s the dawn of a new year – heck, it’s the dawn of a new decade – so new year’s resolutions will be in full force.Yoga classes will get more crowded, there will be a line for treadmills at the gym, thrift shops and libraries will exhaust their supplies of...
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Jul
11
Awareness. Changes. Everything.
If you haven’t read Part 1: Choosing Unhappiness, we pick up right where we left off. In Part 1, I revealed how I had been committed to being unhappy because I had been believing I was actually happier that way. If that makes no sense to you, good. It shouldn’t. It turns...
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Jul
11
*A Heartbreaking Revelation* The Costs of Unconscious Listening
Until twenty minutes ago, I spent my whole life thinking that this thing → * ← was called an “Asterix.” Or maybe an “Astericks.” Either way, I thought the K sound came before the S sound, rather than what it actually is, an S and then K sound: Asterisk. My...
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Jul
11
A Four-minute, Foursquare Foray Into Focus and Alignment
This morning I got an “I’d love to pick your brain” email from a friend and member of my community. It was the second one from this person in six months. In Conscious Leadership, I talk often about full-body yes and no as a key element to conscious decision-making. But...
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Jun
30
When You Call Me Brave
Feedback can be just as much about what I hear as what you say...
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Jun
12
Take a Walk with Me and #changeourneighborhoods: 100% Responsibility
I realized that just seeing more people of color walking down these streets would be noticeable and salutary...
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Feb
13
Everything I Know About Company Culture I Learned at Summer Camp
If you can intentionally preserve core values for over 105 years, or even five years, you’re doing something incredibly special...
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Oct
16
A Practical Application of Zone of Genius to Your Job: Find Out Which Zone You Work in Most
Spending more time in your zone of genius gives you access to your full potential and maximum creativity. Use this tool to explore genius in relation to your day-to-day job...
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Sep
06
Why I’m Giving up Grammar
I've realized I want to let go of some things and it feels like the absolute intersection of fear and openness...
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Jul
15
How to Create a Culture of Feedback? Give More Feedback!
If you want a culture of more consciousness, start with how you are behaving. Right now...
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