It’s likely that somewhere along the way, you’ve explored the difference between “yes, and” and “yes, but.” And, if you’re like me, you’ve found the difference to be striking. The word “and” is one of the most powerful words in our vocabulary. It opens up the possibility of more than one answer, more than one… Continue reading Managing Polarities and the Power of “Yes, And”
Google pulled a fast one on us. There are few web services I love(d) more than Google Photos, which enables you to back up unlimited images to the cloud. With Google Photos, there’s no need for clunky hard drives. No worrying when you drop your iPhone in the river—and all of those adorable photos of… Continue reading A Lesson From the Google Photos Fiasco
How to Get Out of the Office Without Things Falling Apart Everyone “needs” a vacation. We say it all the time. And, just saying the word may evoke images of beaches, mountains, or narrow cobblestone streets. All of the things we work for, right? Don’t we “work to live”? Isn’t it obvious that taking care… Continue reading Take Your Vacation–Things Will Be Fine!
How to Overcome Breakdowns Without the Drama “I’m looking forward to partnering on what our contract will look like for next year,” you say. “But before we go any further, I just need to know…do you love those Godiva chocolates as much as I do?” “Sorry?” the client replies. “What do you mean?” “Oh,” you say,… Continue reading The Chocolates That Never Were
The notorious performance review has become a modern-day torture tactic somehow accepted into the canon of corporate best-practices. Year after year, millions of employees file into their annual review with an enthusiasm befitting a dental cleaning. Here’s how you measured up. Here’s where you did well, and here’s where you fell short. Now get back out… Continue reading How to Do Performance Reviews Better
18 minutes As we consider what re-opening looks like, we must come to grips with the fact that the world we left behind is not the same world we are re-entering. Leaders today are feeling pressure to come up with the answer, the solution, the strategy for re-emergence. But here’s the thing: there is no one answer, no one solution, no one strategy. Operating from this understanding can… Continue reading Re-Emerging Through the Chaos of Coronavirus [18:02]
Ronni Hendel-Giller Leadership Coach Years ago, I bought—and read—every book I could find about challenging conversations: Difficult Conversations, Crucial Conversations, and Fierce Conversations—all of them. Each added to my understanding of how to have (and why not to avoid) the conversations that we least want to have. I attended several workshops that focused on shifting… Continue reading The Doing and Being of Difficult Conversations
Where Does Your Future Live? Doug Fisher The future has an impact on us. It affects how we feel and the actions we take. It’s not what we have had in the past, but how the future looks to us that has the greater impact. For example, imagine a person who earns $50,000 per… Continue reading Where Does Your Future Live?
Loving Stuff That Doesn’t Matter Doug Fisher A study by researchers at Stanford University found that people who frequently switch between several streams of media (e.g. email, internet, text messaging, instant messenger, social networking, etc.) do not perform as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time. The researchers kept looking… Continue reading Loving Stuff That Doesn’t Matter
58 minutes United States Air Force Academy: National Character & Leadership Symposium February 2017 Drawing on Victor Frankl’s insights in “A Man’s Search for Meaning”: “The warrior ethos cannot be pursued as an end in and of itself; rather, it must ensue as the natural consequence of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater… Continue reading Cultivating the Warrior Ethos
