Curiosity Enjoying the annual holiday season leads to curiosity. Curiosity can lead us to think about improving our situation. Curiosity about blind spots. Areas for improvement, a renewed approach to important aspects of our lives. For instance, to be a better...
When is Enough? When is it Time? Can we have enough success, when it is time to step away and reinvent ourselves? To reframe, to reimagine what success looks like. Yes, every time we change roles, we are redefining ourselves. Ash Barty shocked me retiring at 25...
Identity Shift – the hardest part of changing roles? Our identify is closely linked to our work, our career. At social events, often the first question is about ‘what we do’? We quickly size up another person through their work, quickly linking to our...
Curiosity can be Compelling Did curiosity really kill the cat, or instead made its life successful? Curiosity—defined as a penchant for seeking new experiences, knowledge, and feedback and an openness to change. Claudio Fernández-Aráoz et al. Maintaining our...
Leading is Giving Others the Opportunity to Decide Think about what the challenge or opportunity is? How do our options look? What are the potential pitfalls? Is this our proposal? So, what is the best way forward? How do you see the implementation? People have to...
Victim of Circumstance I don’t mind fiction, however in High School, I felt that I had suffered a misfortune, in having to read Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. Set in the Depression of the 1870s in rural England. Tess gets a raw deal in life, and...
Taming our Talents It is too easy to cut loose with our brilliance. However, it always has a time and place. We all have them, our areas where we shine. These talents have two sides to them though, just like a coin. There is a link to being self-aware, which is...
Email a Career Timebomb? I suspect that a fair amount of conflict at work starts with an email. To be fair, we have all seen it, or been a part of it. Indeed, that human history is littered with misunderstandings from email, at least since its inception, that is. ...
Do Managers overestimate their impact? How often do you see someone proudly share their achievements, only to think that the work was completed by a team? It seems easy to bask in the reflected glory of group performance. It is often expected, especially as ownership...
Interruption and Annoyance Context shifting can be rage inducing. Many of us get emotional when interrupted. For those interrupting us, it can be stressful if we have reacted badly before. When you focus on one particular type of task, challenge, or information set,...
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