3-minute read, plus an assessment Thursday, July 30th, was National Intern Day, a day of recognition for the interns who contribute their voice and experience to business and the mentors who guide them. As summer interns depart, they leave behind valuable lessons for us to carry forward. Interns brought energy, fresh perspective, curiosity, and a [...]
6-minute read Building quiet influence We’ve all worked with people who may not hold a leadership title but are leaders in practice. These are the workplace Pied Pipers. Quietly, they shape culture and drive the adoption of new technologies and initiatives. They are office magnets, the people everyone wants to align with and who are [...]
6-minute read and exercises A monthly post generated from reflective thought and experience This month is read-only How quickly we’ve come upon June. Mid-year is a good time to pause and check your progress toward your role-related and career skills goals. Most of us begin the year with an optimistic sprint and lots of positive [...]
7-minute read A monthly post generated from reflective thought and experience I first read Priya Parker’s lovely, grounding book, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters, in 2018. As the world continues to bounce down an uncertain path, I find myself returning to its human-centered ideas and applying them to the [...]
7-minute read A monthly post generated from reflective thought and experience “We live in an age of answers.” Joshua Jay, magician Never before has information been so easy to access; facts, opinions (so many opinions), and analysis available at the tap of a button. This flood of abundance has seeped into every corner of [...]
7-minute read A monthly post generated from reflective thought and experience Ask any leader for a list of their top five challenges. Managing conflict and difficult conversations usually lead the list. Managing workplace disagreement is a mandatory management skill that requires leaders to be comfortable with discomfort. It’s one of the reasons leaders get paid [...]
7-minute read What often separates good leaders from bad is the ability to communicate. From an early age, we are taught to speak by learning, repeating, and stringing together words, yet communication - how to influence, successfully convey a message, and employ verbal and non-verbal techniques - we learn organically. If you’ve ever been around [...]
4-minute read Happy New Year. This installment is the first of the 12th year of these articles. Whether you’re a new reader or have been reading since the beginning, thanks for coming along for the ride. Lately, I’ve been talking with clients and reading smart single contributors and big-dog pundits, looking for predictive markers of [...]
4-minute read In deference to Giving Tuesday, this article is posting a week late. It’s December, a month of both reflection and anticipation. How to sum up a year like no other? The overarching theme of 2025 was uncertainty, about funding, the job market, the stock market, the future of democracy, and the list [...]
6-minute read, 9-minute listen Channeling this past weekend’s NYC Marathon, the end-of-the-year sprint at work has officially begun. And it’s accompanied by stress. Stress isn’t necessarily a bad thing; it’s part of our daily operating rhythm at work and in life. There are two kinds of stress: healthy stress, the happy marriage of a lot [...]
