“Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That’s what I have to say. The second is only part of the first.” – Anna Quindlen Are you living your life purpose and values or is something else defining your life? Sometimes we let work define our life. Our work title becomes our identity
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We are in the midst of the holiday season. It is suppose to be a time of joy, but often it can be a time of stress. We can become overwhelmed with giving! I like where the Thanksgiving holiday is situated within this season. It is at the very beginning. We need to be reminded
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Choices, Choices, Choices! – Our lives are filled with choices. Just walk into a grocery store and you can be overwhelmed by choices with decision making. I had a friend who lived in a third world country providing relief work. When she returned to the US, she was caught off guard by the culture shock
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“Have you been busy?” I find that I frequently get asked this question as a conversation starter. It is similar to people asking, “How are you?” People expect me to reply yes and bemoan how busy life is. We wear busyness like a badge of honor and proof of significance, and then often complain about
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“Based on my experience working with teams during the past 10 years or so, I’ve come to one inescapable conclusion: no quality or characteristic is more important than trust. In fact, my work with teams resolves around trust more than any other topic.” – Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Trust
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“To know others is knowledge. To know oneself is wisdom.” – Lao Tzu Leadership influence is not just about the right behaviors. It is much deeper. It is also about our way of being. Olivia Fox Cabane in her book, The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism, states
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“The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.” – Harold Geneen Recently I was having a discussion with colleagues about how to encourage others. When a person is doing a great job, it is easy
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin Change is the one constant that we all face. You can’t avoid it. But you do have a choice. Will you use change for growth or for deterioration? In my last
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Do you have a vision to make something better, but for it to become a reality, you need to be leading change with others? We face social change in the workplace all the time. Do you have a new process that you need to implement at work that requires your team to be on board
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Are you going through a transition right now? This time of year can be the beginning of changes with children returning to school and organizations preparing for their fall season. I recently learned about the stages that a caterpillar goes through in order to transform into a butterfly. The process reminded me of the stages
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