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Fiercely Loyal
Throughout my life, I’ve described myself as fiercely loyal. Historically, I’d say that’s an aspect of my personal brand. Loyalty never made the list when I did a values exercise, but I identified with it and boasted about it. Now, that concept of loyalty gives me great pause. While I don’t want to throw the
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Zones of Engagement
Engagement. It’s the holy grail of employee performance. When our employees are highly engaged, they do their best work. They are in flow. They love their work, their colleagues, and their clients. When employees are disengaged, they may do the bare minimum. Their work is below what they are capable of. They may be looking
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Acknowledge. Honour. Release.
The past few months have been filled with new gifts of awareness. The primary catalyst was my meditation retreat in December. It formed a wave of new awareness, arguably a tsunami of awareness, that I’ve been tumbling around in ever since. It seems to me that, as children, we enter this world as lumps of
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Learning to Read
It’s safe to say I read a lot. Certainly more than the average bear*. I’ve often felt my reading was more about quantity than quality. Recently, I’ve experienced a profound shift in my relationship with reading that may inspire you to re-evaluate your own. Reading as Achievement My love of reading has long been intertwined
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My Service Shift
“Service” has always been a loaded term for me. Over the years, I’ve watched with fascination as my relationship with service has morphed and evolved. This might be unique to me, but I suspect it isn’t, and if your relationship with service is following my trajectory, today’s share might serve to accelerate your progress along
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Be A Liver
I was connecting with a friend yesterday, and she reminded me how, a few years back, she told me I was like a liver. Memories of that conversation came flooding back, along with the blog post it inspired. Re-reading that post, it feels especially relevant today. There is so much going on in the world
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Restoring Empathy
Today, I think nearly all of us understand the importance of empathy in leadership. And yet, if your experience is like mine, you may find you are not tapping into your gift of empathy as readily as you think. My relationship with empathy has evolved over the years, and today I’ll share some experiences that
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Zero-Based Living
A month ago, I spent a week in a silent meditation retreat. The experience has had a lasting impression on me. Seven days were long enough to disrupt habits so ingrained they ran on autopilot, creating space for neuroplasticity to begin working its magic. These gifts of awareness have opened up a new way of
