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A few weeks ago, a Head of Leadership Development in a client company posed this question to me in preparing to bring some Activation programs in-house.

“Some of our business leaders are chomping at the b […]

Employee Experience. How’s yours these days? I don’t mean your company’s. I mean YOURS.

I effectively asked this question in a survey I launched a few days ago. It’s still open, btw. So please don’t be s […]

Change is the new (though not really that new) constant, so they say. It’s one of the core pillars of innovation, agile development, and all the buzzy things. To remain relevant and competitive, organizations must […]

#MeToo and its inciting, insidious revelations are out of the box. Way out. And now, the Hollywood-born movement has fired up a national (global?) demand for equality, civility, humanity, and basic [bleeping] […]

We’re almost at the finish line. 2018 is well within sight. How are you feeling?

Full disclosure: I’m a little tired. A little road-weary; spent.

I’m also a believer that sometimes we hear just the right […]

By now I will boldly assume we’ve all witnessed the rise and fall of @amyjcuddy and her research on power posing. According to the New York Times, “…a replication of her 2010 study [on power posing]…had […]

Performance Management as a practice has really been pummeled in recent years. Forced rankings, bell curves, and annual reviews… nearly all of its elements have been demonized, thrown to the curb by myriad p […]

Quick question: the last time you heard an inspirational quote around failure – whether fail forward or fast, learn from failure – did you kind of roll your eyes?

It’s OK. You can say yes. I can’t really s […]

I don’t care what your politics are. Not today. Fall where you may fiscally or socially, wherever in the world you call home, today you see hate. You see it empowered, fracturing communities, stealing […]

In 1963, the Beatles invaded America, Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream, and women in large part were striving to be thin. The enterprising Jean Nid

In 1963, the Beatles invaded America, Martin […]

3 common situations…why it matters and what to do about it…

I had lunch recently with a colleague who used this delightful turn of phrase: we all need to “check the frequency we’re resonating at.” […]

Working with leaders that shoot for the moon is inspiring, and frankly just fun. I have all the time in the world to talk about building capabilities for innovation, risk-taking, learning from failure – all the s […]

Allow me to (very gently!) beat a dead horse. As my long-time readers well know, it’s my assertion that – for too many of us – work simply isn’t working.

We come – fueled by enthusiasm and ideas – into […]

As a person who took “Econ for Psych Majors” in college (with all due respect to my econ-minded psych-majoring compatriots), even I can say the concept of “opportunity cost” was intuitive to me from the get […]

We’ve all seen the image of the ostrich. We all know the metaphor. Whether the story we’re telling is one of apathy or ignorance, rarely does the ending involve the prince and the wedding. The ostrich becomes […]

Ah spring break. It’s a beautiful thing. Last week my family took a much-needed vacation with some sunshine and waves. One of the many activities in which we indulged was a three-mile kayaking a […]

I challenge you to go run a mile.
Now I challenge you to run a mile…without shoes.
Now I challenge you to run a mile…without legs.

You see what I did there? I set a challenge. Then I made it harder. The […]

Is mine the only family recently addicted to HGTV’s Tiny House Hunters? I mean, families of four + two dogs living in 200 square feet? Crazy! But a little bit amazing…?

I would never survive in a […]

If you’re afraid it’s gonna get graphic, breathe deeply – you have my word I’ll keep this clean.

But a recent dalliance with my 7-year old daughter, her tummy woes, and a practitioner of Integrative Medicin […]