Tag Archive: meaningful contribution

Finding Water

Hard-earned answers are water for others.

Someone is thirsty for what you’ve learned about delegating responsibilities. Another person would love to hear what you’ve learned about tough conversations.

Your most powerful contributions spring from answers you found for yourself.

Click to learn how.

The 5 Seductions of Triviality

No one wakes hoping for a meaningless life. But triviality is seductive.

You don’t have to wear a scowl. You do need courage to confront triviality.

Triviality says, “Stay busy.”

Busyness hides aimlessness. Motion fakes direction.

Hustle isn’t all bad. But it’s not a destination.

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4 Surprising Realities That Infuse Meaning into Leadership

Organizations can’t give leadership meaning. Bosses and colleagues can’t give it. Meaningful leadership is your responsibility alone. Meaning is energy to run a painful race. 4 surprising realities that infuse meaning into leadership:… Continue reading →

The Shocking Truth about Being Beautiful

Everyone is beautiful just the way they are except greedy billionaires, self-serving politicians of the opposite party, and powerful old white men who think women should have babies, cook dinner, and stay out… Continue reading →

How to Elevate Your Status at Work

When the boss shows up on the front-line, people notice. When a front-line worker shows up in the corporate office, people wonder how they got in. Higher-ups have more status at work than… Continue reading →

3 Unexpected Interventions that Changed the World

Ted Geisel crossed the Atlantic on stormy seas in the Fall of 1935. It was eight days of agonizing monotony. He sat at the bar for hours, the rhythmic thumping of the ship’s… Continue reading →