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#115: Cultivating Civility and Respectful Engagement
Can virtual reality improve respectful engagement and inclusivity in the workplace? What is the difference between walking in someone’s shoes and walking in their feet? How do you go from being a bystander to an upstander? In this week’s 10X Impact Conversation, we’re...
#114: Learning The Leadership Skill of Storytelling
Let's get nerdy for a moment: Brain science tells us that humans make decisions in our limbic brain (our feeling brain), and then we validate and justify those decisions in our cortex (our thinking brain). If this is true, why do we over-index on sharing facts and...
#113: How Comfortable Are You With Radical Candor?
How comfortable are you with radical candor? As promised, this week, Katie and I get real about radical candor. We started this conversation in episode #112: Radical Candor & What People Really Think, but today, you'll get an inside look into our own experience,...
Fear Is Funny, Yes?
My daughter dressed up as FEAR from the movie, Inside Out, for Halloween. Fear is funny, yes? We feel it because we might be: Standing at the edge of a moonshot we MUST pursue to remain in integrity with ourselves. Wading into the murky unknown: the "not yet...
Let’s Talk Burnout
Let's Talk Burnout. Not crash and burn, but the slow fade burnout that happens over time; sneaking up on us, catching us off guard, and leaving us surprised at our lack of resilience in moments that historically would have been, at worst, tolerable, and at best, an...
Choose Your Words Well
Self-limiting beliefs have been top of mind for me this week. As a co-founding partner of a start-up, there is little room for self-limiting beliefs and talk. In order for a new business to get up and GO, we need to bring ample energy to the table around possibility...
Strategy & The Great Resignation
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 11.5 million workers quit their jobs from April 1 - June 30 of this year. Microsoft recently surveyed 30,000 workers, and a whopping 41% said they are considering leaving their current job. Gallup puts the number higher...
The Great Realization
Lately, I have been struck by how many of my people are really struggling. Exhausted, unmotivated, worried… All of it, pervasive and chronic. Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. It’s been a long 18 months since the outset of the pandemic, and we have been swimming in a...
Mental Health at Work (psst…It’s Important!)
Simone Biles. I am going to take a chance here, and guess that you have some thoughts about Simone’s recent decision to withdraw from Olympic competition. Apparently, a lot of people do. It warms my heart to see the outpouring of supportive messages for Simone coming...
5 Practices to Increase Your Thriving
In my last post, I laid the foundation for why we should be working towards more thriving in our lives. I know this is a focus for me, and I believe it should be a focus for all business leaders. If you as a leader are not thriving, how can you expect your team...
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