Early in my career, the company I worked for mandated that each employee complete a DEI training, which consisted of a short video full of smiling, diverse faces, followed by some questions in the company’s virtual learning platform. This was a 20-minute time...
Everyone likes a good change model, especially me. I’ve been guilty of buying into the fallacy that change models perpetuate: it will all be okay. That’s what change models do: they address our emotional need for certainty or security. The models tell us (and we...
Acclaimed author David Foster Wallace’s essay, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, is widely regarded as one of the most famous of its kind. Wallace’s musings on a life well lived opens with a parable...
2020 has been a year for the books. Leaders across disciplines were challenged in ways they never thought possible. Many had to reach deep down for what got them to their position and hang on tight to their beliefs, and sanity, as the rollercoaster of a year...
“We should be careful to get out of an experience the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one...
Turns out, you lie to yourself all the time. Don’t worry, it’s completely natural – an evolutionary fail safe installed in our brains since consciousness evolved. However, these lies are rarely in your best interest. Developing the discipline to identify these lies...
