5 ways to deal with culture clashes over a complex 4 letter word: time
How many culture clashes do you have with friends, family, and co-workers over the topic of time? We all have 24 hours in a day, but our perceptions of time are extremely complex, multifaceted, and idiosyncratic. And we act in ways that feel right to us and support...
How having empathy, humility, and vulnerability help you be a human-centered leader
Bye-bye b2b. Hello h2h. After years of working in the B2B space – that is, business to business, I’ve decided my business practices have become h2h; that is, human to human. Why? My emphasis is on: Building personal relationships with my clients and others, rather...
Why LinkedIn has a problem with spam, not oversharing
“LinkedIn Has Turned Into a Place for Oversharing” – The New York Times Sunday Business Section print edition headline, Sept. 18, 2022. “’This isn’t Facebook,’ users gripe,” reported the NYT in its article. Yet, “Others value talking about more than work.” What’s...
How your boss leaving imposes you into a new place: liminal space
Wherever you work these days – home, the office, or hybrid – it’s likely you’ve also moved into another space, called liminal space. Liminal space is literally the doorway between one space and another. Liminal is from the Latin “limen,” which translates into...
How we humans may be too smart for our own good
Want to be a more humble human? Check out this new dark yet highly entertaining, educational, and thought-provoking book, If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity by Justin Gregg. We humans are the most intelligent beings on...
What do you want to thank your younger self for doing?
What do you want to thank your younger self for doing? The value of this question is at least threefold: It helps you 1) reflect, 2) show self-compassion, and 3) direct your future actions. The idea for asking this question came to me while reading the engaging,...
Why you want to use BANI, not VUCA, to deal with today’s constant chaos
Goodbye, VUCA and thank you for your service. For 40 years, ever since the concept of VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) emerged from conversations at the US Army War College in the late 1980s, VUCA has been a helpful way to describe our world. For...
16 ways for professionals to center themselves when under pressure
Feeling anxious or stressed? You have more options than meditating or medicating to get calm.In this Forbes Coaches Council expert panel, 16 Forbes Coaches Council members, including me, shared our techniques for getting centered, 16 ways for professionals to center...
3 ways to set people up for success and follow through on your requests
Be big, bold, and brief. That’s an effective way to cut through clutter, get people’s attention, and get them to complete a simple action. The managed health care company Aetna definitely snagged my attention with the envelope pictured here. The envelope spoke to me,...
