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Use your anger to recover yourself.
My commitment is to encourage you to lead, yourself and others, by discovering, developing, and being yourself. Inviting you to see the movie “Women Talking” coupled with sharing Sonya Chemaly’s well-researched, conscious-raising Rage Becomes Her: The power of women’s anger does that in spades for me. Take 5 minutes to hear Chemaly speak about women’s…
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What’s that you felt & suppressed?
Self-awareness is essential whether you’re leading others or just yourself. Regardless of your gender, if you haven’t already, please, please, please watch Women Talking. Don’t watch it because it won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2023 Academy Awards. Watch it for the timelessness and timeliness of the message. It stirred and disturbed me deeply. It…
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Look!! Up in the Sky!! There’s another one!! (Part 2)
Make a choice: Choice 1: If you’ve got only 30 seconds, draw your own conclusion about why these 2 pictures appear in a blog on leadership. Choice 2: Skip Part 1, dive into Part 2: Look, there’s another one! Choice 3: To get the background for Part 2, that includes recommend actions for the…
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Are foreign weather balloons messing with your airspace?
News Flash: Chinese weather balloon hovering over Montana! When I heard this news, thoughts rushed in: If the Chinese didn’t mean for this weather balloon to be over Montana, if it was pulled off course by unusual weather patterns, why didn’t they contact the US when it crossed into US airspace and alert us? They…
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Putting together the “team” puzzle
I like putting jigsaw puzzles together. Here’s my strategy: Pick a picture I like. Know that I am choosing the challenge, choosing to play the game. Put the frame together by assembling all the edge pieces. I touch every piece and only pull out the ones with flat edges. My focus is the to…
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Bring the Redwoods Indoors
One of the many benefits of living in the SF Bay Area is that I’m nearby the ocean, the mountains and all that’s in-between. One of the amazing in-betweens is the magnificent redwood. Learning about them might inspire you to bring their magnificence into your team. Foundation: Root SystemsYou would think that a 350 foot-tall…
Read MoreAre you living and leading by design or by default?
Riddle me this: No matter your gender or geography, your doubts or desires, your highs or lows, if you lead 5 or 500, you are always influenced by me. What am I? Answer: The conversation you have about the future. The conversation that is shaping your life, how you lead, how you follow, right…
Read MoreCubicle Concussions
Remember connecting the dots as a kid and seeing the squirrel emerge? As kids, we had to move our crayon from 1 to 2 to 3 because we couldn’t imagine what the picture was going to be. With more experience, we could “see” the picture without drawing any line. It’s time to connect the dots…
Read MoreOstrich-ize your Leadership
When someone’s ignoring what we think they ought to pay attention to, we chastise them with: “Don’t be an ostrich and stick your head in the sand!” Well, add one more thing to the list of the stuff we believe that isn’t true. This past summer, I visited the Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch outside Red…
Read MoreCan you hear yourself now?
Time for a hearing test. No, not the kind that someone else wants you to get because they think you need hearing aids; this is a more of a “listening” test that can help you be more effective, more confident. This test is not age-related; it’s performance-related. “It’s not what you say, it’s what people…
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