Gratitude turns your focus from inward to outward, from reactive to proactive, from passive to active. At dinner recently, a friend mentioned that she would have had no career at all if “likability” weren’t her superpower. She humbly claimed to have almost no other...
Most of us think of trust as a single factor: you either have it or you don’t. But that way of thinking is too simplistic. In reality, we trust the people in our lives in different ways and for different purposes. “I’ll take a look at that tomorrow,” a former...
As executives, we’ve been trained to have all the answers. As leaders, however, often the best thing we can do is ask questions instead. This year, a poem changed my leadership. Let me share the poem with you—and don’t worry, it’s a haiku, so this will be brief: Talk...
Here’s the simple but powerful 4-question framework to reflect on difficult situations with a new lens. In a recent coaching conversation, one of my clients shared her frustration with a team member who failed to complete a critical project task and then subsequently...
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