Giving “Bad News:” How to do it effectively and compassionately Episode 142 In this episode, I explore giving challenging news. I discuss my 35-year consulting practice and the strategies I’ve developed and still follow when I have to have a tough talk with my clients. It’s not easy to do because it’s tempting to fall…
The amazing Arianna Huffington wrote this this morning. I agree with her thoughts and I had a comment that I thought bears repeating. Here it is. It works super well. And yet I like having a wishlist that helps me remember cool things I want to do. I want to drive the winding roads of…
Today, I honor those who heed the call to teach. No, it’s not national teachers’ day or anything. Sometimes, the sheer amount of work, dedication, and love that goes into teaching stuns me. To all of you who have taken up the mantle to guide others, to teach them, to imbue in them a sense…
I owe this morning‘s power words to Gary Vaynerchuk. He and I have a great deal in common. We are both immigrants from what I will call Russia. We both came over in the 70s. We both came over with families who had nothing but a dream to have a better life. We both showed…
Today’s show up words. Yes, self-awareness, self control, self-discipline are all important. We also must take some time as part of our self development to celebrate ourselves. It doesn’t have to be long. It can be “woo hoo!” when we’ve achieved something and then we jump right on back into it. But we do need…
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In truth, we can’t know how one small act today might impact every day for the rest of our lives. But it does, somehow. We won’t know until we have the wisdom of hindsight, but a yes or no, a right or left, a stay or go – they all shape and form the rest…
“There’s an app for that,” are some of the most beautiful words I’ve ever heard or said. I’m thrilled to see so many talented people create apps that do just about anything I could want. It allows us to be independent and creative in how we run our businesses. That counts for a lot for…
Creativity Blocks I believe one of the worst things that we can do for our creative process is to label our downtime with a negative connotation. Sometimes, we need time to think, to ruminate, to create the worlds, universes, paintings, songs, books, or speeches. And if that means that we spend some time not creating,…
Here I was at last full moon taking pictures with my trusty Nikon. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get situated in a way that my little tripod could get a picture of the moon without the cable in front of it. How frustrating, right? But then I got this picture. And I saw it. A perfect representation…