Category Archive: Leading

How to Lead Through Turbulence and Uncertainty with Clarity and Confidence

Enough with the hand wringing. Don’t pretend things are easy when they’re hard Don’t run around with your hair on fire, or you’ll burn out. #1. Acknowledge challenges. #2. Communicate with empathy. #3.… Continue reading →

Life Will Never Be the Same After COVID-19

Life won’t be the same after COVID-19. Life IS change.   1975 Life hasn’t been the same since 1975. Steve Sasson invented the world’s first self-contained digital camera in 1975. He was a… Continue reading →

How Compassion Answers Anxiety

Anxiety is a merciless taskmaster that slaps you in the night. Anxiety is a jockey whipping a horse. Everywhere the horse runs, the jockey goes too. When you open the door, you find… Continue reading →

How to Talk with Anxious People

COVID-19 is a global pandemic according to Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the General-Director of the World Health Organization. (3/11/2020)   How to talk with anxious people: #1. Avoid “but”: When people share concerns… Continue reading →

Three Ways to Make Meetings Great Again

67% say meetings distract from getting work done.* “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Leo Tolstoy’s opening line of Anna Karenina has become the Anna… Continue reading →

How Painful Experiences Changed the Trajectory of a Fortune 300 CEO

Being fired changed the trajectory of a former CEO of Campbell Soup Co. Doug Conant walked in and got unexpectedly fired from his job as the Director of Marketing for Parker Brothers. Doug… Continue reading →