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Why We Need to Share Our Family Stories
Do you know where your grandparents grew up? Do you know where your parents went to high school? Do you know where your parents met? Do you know an illness or something really terrible that happened in your family? How well do you know your family history? Listening to – and telling – the stories ...
Why Leaders Need to Embrace the Science of Being Uncomfortable
If growth lived in comfort, we’d all be masters by now. But it doesn’t. Real learning and adaptation happen in the awkward space right outside what you already know. That’s not a motivational metaphor. It’s how your brain is wired. Why Discomfort Fires Up Learning Novelty activates learning circuits.When you step into uncertainty (even a ...
Why Communication Training Is the Smartest Investment You’ll Make This Year
If you’re anything like us, the last thing you need is another leadership buzzword. It seems like there’s a never-ending deluge of terms and advice on the “right” kind of training that will transform your team and instantly make everything better. The truth is there’s one area that can transform managers to better lead teams, ...
Why a Micro-Adventure Can Be Just as Thrilling
Hello and welcome back! It’s summertime and I’m thinking a lot about how travel and adventure can be transformational. But it doesn’t have to be epic. It can be right in your backyard! Read on. Recently my wife and I set off with our friends Kris and Susan to bicycle around the famed Cabot Trail ...
How Do You Approach Your Work?
How you approach your work matters. You don’t have to repeat to yourself focus, focus, focus… there are some specific ways you can prime yourself to choose better priorities, and be more productive. How you set your mind and your body into your work can make a big impact on the quality of the work ...
What’s Your Habit Trigger?
“In a nutshell, advice is overrated. I can tell you something, and it’s got a limited chance of making its way into your brain’s hippocampus, the region that encodes memory. If I can ask you a question and you generate the answer yourself, the odds increase substantially.” – Michael Bungay Stanier Recently, I had a ...
