Daily Dose of inspiration

“We’re starting to see friction on our teams,” one of my executive coaching clients said this week. She looked exhausted. The initial wave of “we’re in this [...]

Thank you to all of you who voted for my book title. We got almost 200 responses! The winner that inched out the others is Wired For Disruption – Five Shifts In Agility To Lead In The Future of [...]

Some of you may have read my blog post about how times of disruption call for leadership experiments. As I have been pondering about how to be most useful to my clients and community, here is [...]

I was on a Zoom call with a coaching client this morning. She talked about how Zoom calls all day are exhausting. I asked her if we should switch off to talk on the phone instead. We both had a [...]

I recently had a Zoom call with a client team. It was an experiment to see how we could shift ourselves from doing business continuity triage to actually discovering the opportunities in the [...]

In December of last year, I started writing a book about leading in disruption. I didn’t realize that we would be disrupted in such profound ways. For the last few weeks as the reality of the [...]

As I write this morning, the sun is just beginning to come up. I’m a morning person. This week, in particular, I want to wake up early and connect with what’s right in this world. The birds are [...]

Just yesterday, I was having a video call with a CEO. He looked tired, with bags under his eyes. I asked what it’s like for him. He was talking about some of the challenges of leading in this new [...]

I had a beautiful coaching call with my client Laura yesterday. It was beautiful because it was messy and real. She was working from home, and we were on video-chat on Zoom. She was in her [...]

Today I’m thinking about our mindset about control. It’s human to want control. Our current mindset says if we can just control our environment, we will be okay. Without control we feel fear and [...]