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I recently attended a talk for human resource leaders that brought in Hitendra Wadhwa, a very popular professor at Columbia Business School and founder of the Institute for Personal Leadership (IPL). Wadhwa is a mathematician who has made a study of what makes a great leader. It didn’t surprise me that this scholar found that great leadership comes from […]
Reading books is good for you. Even Oprah says so. (Writing books is, too, even if while you’re doing it you’re not sure if you’ll ever finish. Ahem.) Late last summer I finished writing my first book. Among other benefits, that experience gave me even more respect for book authors than I had before. Writing […]
A recent study offered an interesting twist on what makes for effective listening. According to research, listeners who hear a speaker by phone, or with eyes closed, tend to more accurately gauge the speaker’s emotions than listeners who are also looking at the speaker by video conference or in person. According to an article in […]
We all sometimes show up in the world in a way we didn’t intend. Sometimes it’s a moment we learn from and move on, but at other times we get stuck showing up repeatedly in ways that go against who we really want to be. To fix that, we need both clearer intentions, and also […]
“He knows how to push my buttons.” “She just gets under my skin.” Is there a person, place or situation that always seems to trigger a dramatic emotional response from you? There are many common behavioral and situational triggers. These include not feeling heard, encountering a person who needs to be right all the time, […]
“I just don’t feel joy in this job anymore.” I was sitting in a windowless conference room with my new client, Derek. It felt a bit stifling, like the heat was on too high, and Derek seemed equally confined by the office chair he’d chosen to sit in. There were two nice armchairs across the […]
Whether in the regular tempo of a cyclist’s pedal stroke, or in the pattern of a leader’s day, rhythm creates energy. Our brains love repeating rhythmic patterns: research has shown that our body’s cells are something like tiny clocks, with rhythmic sequences synchronizing sleep, digestion, muscle activity, and so much more. As the school year […]
Families and organizations both bring individuals together into a group. That’s not all they have in common. At work, individuals may end up in a role or position that evolved from their role in their childhood family. Whether we are the person everyone counts on at work, the one who gets along with everyone, or […]
Confidence is what allows us to do our work even when we know critics might question it. It is what allows us to take risks with our shoulders back and our head held high. And it is what helps us decide to do the right thing, even when others are pressuring us otherwise. We’re more […]
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