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Books can’t give you experience
I adore books. My shelves are filled with titles that promise insights about leadership, coaching, human dynamics, strategy, compassion, values. After madly highlighting these work-related books in my effort to absorb their wisdom (and thus become wiser myself), I take a break and read fiction. As it often happens in these non-work readings, the Ah-Ha…
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Leader: Are you a Dropper-Offer or Developer?
We ask others to do things for us all the time – things we don’t want to do, things we don’t have the time to do, and things we couldn’t do even if we had the time. We drop our suits at the dry cleaners, our car at the garage, and our kids at school.…
Read MoreThese times are our times
I’ve been trying to write a super-duper, kick-off-the-year message that would inspire you in your quest to make your unique contribution and be your best self at work and at home. I’ve been coming up blank. Writing something about the January-ness of it all – a new beginning, out with the old/in with the new,…
Read MoreWhen our self-talk comes out of another’s mouth
Channel surfing on Sunday, I stumbled upon the show “Off Camera with Sam Jones”. Off Camera is hosted by director/photographer Sam Jones who created the show out of his passion for the long form conversational interview, and as a way to share his conversations with a myriad of artists, actors, musicians, directors, skateboarders, photographers, and writers…
Read MoreLions and Tigers and Liars, Oh My!
We’ve been lying as long as we’ve had language. Research shows that a child’s ability to bend the truth is a developmental milestone, much like walking and talking. While our noses don’t grow like Pinocchio’s when we lie, research shows a person’s nose can “heat up” when they lie. Liars populate our literature (Gatsby; Lady…
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Bring the Redwoods Indoors
One of the many benefits of living in the SF Bay Area is that I’m nearby the ocean, the mountains and all that’s in-between. One of the amazing in-betweens is the magnificent redwood. Learning about them might inspire you to bring their magnificence into your team. Foundation: Root SystemsYou would think that a 350 foot-tall…
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Ask for Tension … (really?)
Advancement takes effort. When the effort is fueled by a self-generated commitment (part 1 in this series: your “why”) and not an other-imposed “should”, everything and everyone moves forward. When people continually seek to expand relationships and build trust (part 2:accountability knots), that behavior benefits everyone. With these two commitments activated, when support is needed,…
Read MoreAccountability Knots
In Part 1 of this 3-part series, I offered a climbing analogy for leading yourself with your commitments, your “why’s”, and I promised to share the calls-and-responses between climber and belayer that exemplify support through accountability and how to translate them into team success. Read on! (That’s me in blue jacket, belaying niece Caity.) In…
Read MoreWalk your Talk … Vertically!!
When I tell people I’m taking an indoor climbing class at Pacific Edge, their “Good for you!” is usually followed quickly by “Why?” My Whys I have several whys. Every day, I ask leaders to commit to something without knowing how to do it and without a guarantee of success. I ask them to step…
Read MoreLearn to Interrupt (yourself, not others)
Before last month, if you would have asked me if I was a good listener, I would have quickly and assuredly said “Yes.” Now, my response is, “I’m learning to be a better one.” Why the change? I’ve been engaged in dialogues, the art of listening. Dialogue is the discipline of collective learning and inquiry.…
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