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How to Get More Done

How to Get More Done If there is one aspect of work that I have found consistently challenging, for myself and my clients, it is the ability to focus one’s time and energy. With endless emails, meetings, articles, reports, best practices and good ideas coming from...

Who Are You Becoming?

Who are you becoming? If we are going to grow in our careers, if we are going to keep learning, if we are going to do new things we don’t fully know how to do quite yet, we are going to have to spend time in that (often) uncomfortable space of becoming. Career...

Are You Making Time to Talk?

Are You Making Time to Talk? The neverending inbox. Incoming text messages. Apple Watch tapping at us. Meeting after meeting after meeting. The neverending cooking, cleaning, laundry, kids, parents, friends, pets, gifts, bills, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter....

Everything is a Trade-off

Everything is a Trade-off Why do we – as people and as organizations – think we can do it all? And what are the costs to us trying? “We can try to avoid the reality of trade-offs, but we can’t escape them.” – Greg McKeown So many of us, and so many organizations,...

Knowing is Not Doing

Knowing is Not Doing Doesn’t it feel good to get things done? We all love feeling productive, but so often it can seem like you are super busy and yet not accomplishing much. How can it be that you are in constant motion, but the most important tasks on your to-do...

Cultivate Your Curiosity

Cultivate Your Curiosity The notion that great leadership and innovation is rooted in curiosity isn’t new. After all, it was Socrates that said, “Wisdom begins in wonder.” But as a management tool, I don’t think curiosity gets the respect it deserves. Especially in...

Changed by Listening

Changed by Listening SSeveral years ago, instead of making a list of New Year’s resolutions, I started inviting a word into my life to focus on for the year. Inviting it to speak to me, to teach me, to get under my skin and into my heart. A few years ago that word was...

15 Wishes for You

15 Wishes for You You are much more than a fundraiser, a board member, a nonprofit leader. You are a role model and an inspiration. Despite all that is going wrong in our world, people like you are fighting to make things better. You prove that good people will...

Will your feedback really help?

Will your feedback really help? When I was younger, I thought giving critical feedback was adding value. That being able to analyze a situation, see where the problems were and articulate how things could be improved would help make things better. Here’s what I know...

What do you need to stop doing?

What do you need to stop doing? So many people love the classic Vince Lombardi quote, “A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.” But hold on a second, are you sure that’s true? Winners quit all the time. Winners stop doing things that aren’t creating results....