The amazing power of gratitude
It's super easy to get caught up in the "busyness" of business and forget to feel gratitude or to take notice of those who have affected our lives and careers in a positive way. Look at your colleagues or scan your email list. To whom do you owe some gratitude?...
5 strategies for teamwork at the edge
Today's guest post is from Dennis N.T. Perkins, author of Into the Storm: Lessons in Teamwork from the Treacherous Sydney to Hobart Ocean Race, CEO of Syncretics Group, a consulting firm dedicated to helping leaders and teams thrive under conditions of adversity,...
It’s OK to be vulnerable
Dr. Herbert O'Driscoll shares this compelling story about the power of love and vulnerability. When I was a child, my grandmother died and was buried in the churchyard in Castlecomer, Ireland. The following year I went there on holiday. One day we drove to visit...
Dear Self-absorbed Boss
Three nearly identical stories about having a self-absorbed boss were shared with me in just two days. Those stories were about individual and/or group anguish, trauma, frustration, annoyance, confusion and heartbreak caused by narcissistic control-freak bosses. The...
5 ways to manage workplace conflict
It’s the weekly department staff meeting, and your boss just glowingly recognized a colleague for landing an impressive new client. You feel like you've just been run over by a truck—you're the one who introduced her to that client and specifically asked that she...
How the “Power of And” Changed My Life
After a 360° assessment that was, shall we say, less than stellar, I looked for a magic bullet to improve my leadership abilities. What made a pivotal difference and accelerated my own abilities was discovering Polarity Thinking—a set of...
