There is no greater joy in life than watching others’ exceed their expectations of themselves. My journey has afforded me the opportunity to walk with leaders and developing professionals as they reach and stretch, doubt and fall short, dream and try, and fail and get back up. Whether an individual, company or organization, the moments … Continue reading The Shift
When we’re little, we think about getting our first bike and then getting to play with our siblings in their advanced on-line video gaming world. Then we want our own mini iPad and smart phone. When we’re teenagers, we think about that first car and really hope it has sizzling style. As newlyweds, we may think about moving from an apartment … Continue reading Stewarding Others’ Dreams
We get up each morning with the known before us – or as I call it “The List.” There is one at home. There is one at the office. There is one that includes responsibilities to other people and commitments. There is the one full of dreams to get to one day. We move from … Continue reading The List
John Kabat-Zinn’s quote, “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf” was recently shared with me by a colleague. It brought to mind the many leaders I have watched not just learning, but UN-learning, in order to remain relevant in the present, while trying to reposition their companies and organizations against an … Continue reading Custodians of the Future
It’s about 3:30 PM on a Monday. Outlook is bulging from an email binge. Your cell is hot to touch from Gen Y texts. VMs from boomers are stretching your phone network capacity. Requests to like vendors’ Facebook pages are exponentially mounting up. LinkedIn invitations and recommendation requests need attention. You’ve had meetings scheduled back … Continue reading Inquiring instead of Accusing
I was blessed with the opportunity to participate with a diverse group of peers who spent concentrated time together examining our lives. Our days together were created in a confidential setting so that the space was there for us to be fully present, completely authentic, and wholly open to what the experience could bring to … Continue reading Waking Up
As we head into a New Year, many of us make promises to ourselves about how we are going to live our lives differently. We sense the opportunity for second chances and arbitrarily focus on it when the calendar changes. We seek renewal again and again and again in our lives, when in fact, a new beginning … Continue reading New Beginnings
I’m reminded of the lyrics from Paul Simon’s song “The Sounds of Silence” when I consider just being. Think about any normal day and what transpires. We get up in the morning to the accompaniment of some type of noise – an alarm clock, the smart phone alarm, the TV, music, kitchen sounds, or showers … Continue reading Just Being
Like our lives, businesses go through seasons. Somewhere along our journey, we grow to believe that things won’t change or desire them not to change. Constant change is all that happens in life. Sometimes change comes in small increments, and sometimes it’s significantly larger and longer. I’ve recently been through a transition that began in 2009 … Continue reading Transformational Change
Serving others seems like it would be such an easy core value to adopt, until it becomes inconvenient, lowers the expectations of where we will be perceived to fit into society’s tiers or we apply it to our marriages. There are millions of people around the world who are serving others on a daily basis … Continue reading The Ego Check: It’s Not About You
