Presence Requires Your Emotional System
Presence requires your emotional system. What takes you out of the present? Perceived threats. What do we interpret as perceived threats?...
Hope? Abandon it in Favor of Presence.
"Abandon hope... stay present instead." I've been tempted to make a line of t-shirts to carry this message. 'Abandon hope' is Pema's. I...
The Iceberg Illusion - Success and Failure
This is a great image. When I talk about strategy thinking™ and my inside out business process I use with clients, a significant...
Strategy Thinking™ is Staying in a Constant Creative Process
What is Strategy Thinking™? It's the process of staying in a creative process/loop and resisting the framework of a beginning, middle,...
Please Stop Apologizing and Telling Me It is for My Convenience
Nothing is more frustrating to me than a bait and switch. Ordering online for delivery to me means product is delivered to my door. It's...
Purpose, Meaning, and Heart is the New Bottom Line
As promised, @caseygerald's talk from @creativemornings two Friday's ago. Rarely am I moved to tears at 9 a.m., but moved I was....
Ok, So Here's the Deal on Hiring
Just over the last few days I have heard so many storylines about hiring, the primary overture being "hiring is the hardest part of...
How Resilience Works
I was reading Sheryl Sandberg's very beautifully written post on grief over the weekend. In it, she references Adam Grant's teaching on...
Facilitating "The Zone"
My client, Katie, forwarded to me this article from the Boston Globe on mindfulness teacher George Mumford's work with the Celtics and...
Competition without Collaboration Fails Us
I posted Margaret Heffernan's TED talk a few weeks back. Since then, I've been following her and like what she has to say more and more....
