Difficult People.
Difficult people are everywhere. You may even be one of them sometimes! John is a new employee in the office. This is his first job, out...
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Are you an Optimist?
Imagine you are 18, a bomb goes off on the humvee you are driving in Iraq. A million thoughts are going through your head. You aren’t...
We should all be more like Gumby.
If we go to the dictionary, we’ll find that it’s the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent,...
Resilience and Self-Awareness
“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” Lao Tzu Mike Judge was the kid who...
Resilience & Confidence
It moved him. That night he scrawled “chapter one” on a legal pad. Three agonizing years later, A Time to Kill was born. “I had never...
Resilience & Positivity
Our book LEMONADE: The Leaders Guide to Resilience at Work is launched! I’m so excited to say, it is now available on Amazon.com. I was...
Lemonade and the Resilience at Work Questionnaire – NOW AVAILABLE!
Greetings compatriots! It is my distinct pleasure to announce that we have now got Lemonade: The Leaders Guide to Resilience at Work...
Author Interview: LESS
Greetings dear reader! Every so often over the next few months I’ll be interviewing authors of business books, articles or leadership...
Social Media Tips from Author/Coach/Internet Entrepreneur Suzi Pomerantz
Good business readers are asking for more tips and information on social media strategy, and who better to comment than our own resident...
Lessons that Bear Repeating
You know that thing you always have to remember that comes up again and again in your career – that thing that you can’t help but have to...
Interview with the author of “Leaders: Their Stories, Their Words”
Donna Karlin (no relation…but people do ask!) has a new book out, and I was lucky enough to get a few insights from the author. Donna...
Unemployment #s Call for UNFEAR Across the USA
From CBS news on June 13, 2011: “About 6.2 million Americans, 45.1 percent of all unemployed workers in this country, have been jobless...
UNFEAR Practice #2 – Build Relationships & Community
In order to activate UNFEAR we need to practice! One of the four keys to UNFEAR is building relationships and community, and I got to...
How do you use the four practices of UNFEAR?
In the first blog of this series, Fear at Work: is your team in shock, I asked you to take a moment to identify your own ‘being state’...
Shackleton and UNFEAR
Last week I introduced the concept of my book, UNFEAR, which will be released this autumn. UNFEAR : \ ən-fir\ confidence in one’s ability...
Fear at Work: is your team in shock?
Are you leading a team in turmoil, or looking for a way to survive business and work challenges? You may be going through change—asking...
Unfear: Facing Change in an Era of Uncertainty
Never fear dear reader – the book I’ve been working on for a year (one of the many reasons I have JUST begun using this blog) is DONE!...