On Day 9 to Stronger Leadership, remember why you chose to lead others. Step up as a courageous visionary. Consider not just your future prospects when making decisions, but everyone’s. #12daystoleadership #covertleadership #courageousvisionary On your mission to achieve stronger leadership: Put your audience ahead of you by protecting their future.. Be kind along your journey and […]
Archive | Unplugged Letters
Need to write that letter, but refrain from sending it? Well, you still can, and you can even publish it right here. We promise we won’t share it with your boss or co-worker, but we will need to ensure it’s not full of inappropriate language. Unplug with your complete and utter emotional honesty. Just be sure to self-censor and use your judgment as to the necessity and appropriateness of the selected adjectives!
Follow Your Path
By Agent N1 on April 13, 2015 in Fireside Chats, Tip of the Day, Unplugged Letters, Work Life Balance
Six years ago, I directly managed ten senior staff and oversaw a team of over 700 who were implementing projects worth ~$20 million per year. For the last five and a half years, I have had a hiatus from all of that, from managing staff, and ensuring quality programming, and juggling money, and signing off […]
Embracing Discomfort
Fear, uncertainty, and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. Joseph Cambell
Corporate Ethics
A company urgently needed to train a whole set of its staff in a particular skill and approached a friend of mine about the assignment. My friend, by my definition (not her own), was an expert: she has a post-graduate degree in the field; she has been working in that particular field for over twenty […]
New Beginnings
It’s spring. The almonds, the first of the fruit trees of the season, are in full glorious bloom. Buds and shoots are forming on other trees. The first phase of a work assignment just ended and the next phase is slowly beginning. Several new projects start this week. The girls’ term at school ends on […]
The Negation of Why
By Agent N1 on February 10, 2015 in Fireside Chats, Riffs & Ideas, Tip of the Day, Unplugged Letters, Weekly Survival, Work Life Balance
There’s a lot of hype these days about the need for a purpose, that to achieve we have to have a why. And it’s true. Having a mission does give us motivation. Knowing the why helps us inspire our teams. Developing a purpose provides the roadmap. I recently read a passage, however, in a novel: […]
Job Interviews
Do you remember your last job interview? Did you research the company and cram to determine the straight-A answers for the questions they were likely to ask? Were you nervous? After the interview, did you worry about whether or not they approved of you or the answers you gave? A friend of mine went through […]
‘Tis the Season
My personal definition of success includes helping others, both professionally and personally. So I am a humanitarian worker, living and working in less industrialized countries. I support all manner of programs designed to improve the lives of those who are less fortunate. I also give personal resources – my time, my family’s gently used belongings, […]
Money, Money, Money
Dear Sheryl Sandberg, When you wrote your book to tell women to lean in, did you presume that every woman wanted power and money money money, in a rich man’s world? Did enjoying those precious moments with your child not outweigh the green stuff filling your bank accounts? Have you always had a healthy relationship […]
Winning your Break Up
I was listening to a program on the radio today which sent me to Forbes.com. A woman, Fancy Frenchwood, published her letter of resignation in all of it’s emotional honesty and glory. Later this evening, I was watching an episode of How I Met Your Mother about who won the relationship break up. Was it […]
