What kinds of questions are driving your life? Are they beautiful questions, or exhausting questions? The poet and consultant Libby Wagner, who specializes in leadership language says, “A beautiful question by nature is expansive rather than restrictive.” Wagnerwho draws upon the work of the late Irish poet, John O’Donahue.
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We’ve long been told, “Change is hard.” The prevailing wisdom is that people don’t like to change. I was recently dealing with a leader who was trying to make organizational process changes. Very few on the team adopted the new processes. They didn’t argue in the meeting when it.
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Her mother let her go to school with roaches in her book bag when she was seven. Their home was entirely dysfunctional, people floating in and out, lots of weed and other drugs. The water and power were often turned off. There were no regular meals, and food was.
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Do you even find yourself looking forward to that mythical time when your life is finally under control? Be careful what you wish for. Famed racecar driver Mario Andretti once said, “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” It’s tempting to want life to be more.
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Are you finding there’s a little more of you to love lately? If you’re a little heftier than you used to be, the real culprit might be stress. Stress can lower your metabolism; it also causes you to increase your consumption. Mindless eating is a mainstay in many offices. .
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They’re the generation whose parents told them, “You’re special.” They’re the millennials. The generation born between 1980 and 2000 are now 35% of the workforce. By 2020 they’ll be 46% of the workforce. If you want to create a successful organization, you need the millennials. Senior leaders complain that.
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It’s another auto “scandal.” But unlike the GM ignition switch issue earlier this year, Volkswagen’s emission problem wasn’t the result of lower level neglect. It was proactive deception. It’s inappropriate to call this a scandal. A CEO affair is a scandal. This was an orchestrated project to circumvent the.
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If you could wave a magic wand and solve one big world problem, what would it be? Perhaps you’re ready for a Grand Challenge. A Grand Challenge is more than just a moniker; it’s an official designation. WhiteHouse.gov provides a definition: “Grand Challenges are ambitious but achievable goals that.
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In some environments it’s harder to create positive cultures than others. Phil Moore, Managing Partner of Porter Keadle Moore, an Atlanta based accounting firm says, “As accountants, our job is to find the bad stuff that other people can’t see, so it’s easy for our default to be negative.”.
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How do you motivate yourself in difficult situations? I learned a technique from my brother, Jim Earle, a former US Army Ranger to help pull it out of our gut when things get tough. It’s a single phrase that has become our business mantra: Ranger Up. It’s not just.
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