2014 has been quite a year. A year of new. New company developments for both companies. New clients and new relationships within existing clients. New Product ideas – with so little time to focus. And new partnership learnings, how we work together and let culture drive our business without getting in the way of our […]
Emotional Attractors
Why is it that making change is so hard? Whether it’s a change in jobs or careers or our financial situation or our personal relationships, it isn’t easy making change. The tipping point for change is emotion, largely due to our “positive emotional attractors”, those people who help us to thrive and grow. These trusting […]
‘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, […]
Customize Your Life
Are you slogging through some parts of your life? Work? Relationships? Have you ever noticed how quickly time passes when you are doing something in which you are truly passionate and engaged? So many of us are doing what we “should” be doing. Maybe we selected our profession because we were good at a particular […]
You Don’t Have to be Friends with Everyone
A few years ago, early during a brief tenure with a fair-sized development agency, I led a one-day training of management skills for a group of about 15 managers. I gave an overview of management styles, teams and empowerment, communication, decision-making, time management, delegation, and performance reviews. Most participants were new to management. They […]
Self-Indulgence
In July 2015, my husband and I are going to start a year of traveling with our daughters. It’s something we’ve always talked about doing. “Wouldn’t it be nice to take some real time to travel” we would say rather vaguely. In the early summer, I told my husband that it was now or never. […]
Living is Vital
Last week, I was speaking with one of my interns. She is a senior university student who has had several diverse jobs and internships over the last couple of years. She has seen a variety of careers and jobs and lifestyles in this short time period. She was reflecting on all of this, wondering out […]
About those Start-Ups
Consulting is a funny industry. And I suppose it’s especially funny, or fuzzy, for folks who like to give away advice like handing out free coffee and donuts at rest stops. What’s even funnier is when we are helping individuals who want to be paid consultants, by giving our services to them for free, and […]
Culture Before Business
Four of us, a few years back, made a pinky pact to create change in corporate America and around the world, and we formed a company to help make that change. Two years later, with several projects and one big huge beast of a project, we are now looking at ourselves and each other, and […]
Motivation
Have you ever noticed how hard you can work when you are truly motivated? Friends of mine have a small weekend farm outside of the city. They have apple, peach, and plum orchards, a few vegetables, and a fair few grapevines. A few times each year, we spend the better part of a day helping […]
