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A better way to talk about Politics, Parenting & other Polarizing Issues
Given our line of work, Caroline & I are often asked something along the lines of, “How do I talk to someone who holds radically different views than I do?” The question typically comes with…
A Bigger Vision for Organizational Development
It’s really interesting how the engagements with our organizational clients evolve over time. As they extend from months into years, we find ourselves deeply embedded into the fabric of the organization, simultaneously working at the…
A Practice For Accessing Your Intuition
I was super honored to be included in Santa Fe Art Institute‘s recent SFAI 140 event, where I shared the Three Centers practice for accessing your intuition. The talk is a mere 140-seconds, and the…
Why do some teams stumble, while others soar?
Why do some teams stumble, while others soar? That was the question that Google has spent the last five years studying, as part of its massive effort to measure—and optimize—nearly every aspect of its employees…
Your Body Is Trying To Tell You Something… Are You Listening?
This may strike you as an odd question but… where are your shoulders right now? Are they tight and up around your ears? Slack and drooping? Curled forward or pulled back? Are you assuming they’re…
Why You Can’t Get Emotional Intelligence From A Book
In the professional development world, sometimes Emotional Intelligence seems like that old cliche about the weather—everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it. Or, as Muriel Magian Wilkins puts it in Signs That…
Not producing the results you want? Try this Reality Check exercise
Not long ago, I set out to learn basic Italian in advance of a trip. I signed up for a course at the Italian Cultural Institute (or, if you prefer, Istituto Italiano di Cultura), bought…
Practice of the Week: Starting Rituals
Procrastination sucks. Oh sure, it may seem like a good idea at the time, but like your mom probably told you, it’s all fun and games until you’re on your death bed wracked by regrets…
4 Painfully Obvious Ways To Win Friends And Influence People At Work
As coaches, people often ask us how they can be more effective and impactful at work. Sometimes, it seems like they’re hoping for secret sauce that will give them awesome superpowers. Truth is, there are…
Need Leadership? Don’t wait for it to walk in the door
Big takeaway from Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2014 survey: The need to “broaden, deepen, and accelerate leadership development at all levels, in all geographies, and across all functional areas” is by far the most…
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We're big fans of what MIT's Otto Scharmer calls exploring the future by doing. So rather than just talking about what we do, we thought we'd offer some real-world examples of work we're doing with clients that you can apply right away.