Leadership Resilience Quote of the Day
Good morning dear readers. Whatever your political persuasion, I want to share a quote from our President’s speech of last night – I was...
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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...
A Picture is Worth a 1000 Words – This is what TEAMWORK looks like!
NASA Team Celebrating Curiosity’s Touchdown! #NASA #results #teamwork
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...
What’s Your Story?
Every day we create narratives around events that happen to us. If they are bad, the tapes that run through are mind are usually, Oh my...
Is Your Glass Half Full?
Optimism People are afraid of optimism. They know the value of it, but don’t want to get their hopes up too much, just in case things...
Resilience at Work: Announcing the RAW-Q!
The Resilience at Work Questionnaire looks at our unique strengths in how we adapt to and bounce back from change and challenge. We can...
Purpose = Performance
Working just to pay the bills is uninspiring. For right or for wrong, we tend to get resentful that our lives require a humdrum job....
Never Do This. (lessons from leadership mistakes)
Hi everyone! We all know that no one is perfect, and everyone – even the most respected of leaders – makes mistakes. You can choose to...
Celebrating Thanksgiving – At Work
Today we had a regular semi-monthly conference call for my team, and we opted to focus our meeting on the same updates we normally would...
Remembrance, Community, and Unfear
Thank you to my friends, clients, and colleagues for your commitment to building relationship and community at work. Every day that we...
Scary Job Numbers Call for UNFEAR
From the Times article: “The problem is less that companies are laying people off than that they are not hiring. Consumers and employers...
Working Together: A Poem
Working Together We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again. The visible and the invisible working together in...
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...
The Blame Game: An Interview with Author Ben Dattner
Greetings dear reader! Every so often over the next few months I’ll be interviewing authors of business books I recommend, all of whom...