Fully Human. This is my mantra for 2021. Covid has been the great leveler. No one is exempt. Life is unfolding on our screens. Illness, death, injustice, social uprising, divisive politics. We feel the contagion of Fear with a capital F, over so many things we...
When I was a teen, I worried a lot. I worried about exams and grades. I worried about friends opinions of me. And I agonized about how I would tell my dad I did not want to go to the college he had his heart...
I want to make a case for invoking the freedom to make – and remake – our own rules, in service of building better organizations, communities, families, and societies. I remember as a kid many recess kickball games on the school blacktop. I wasn’t the...
I was talking with a leader who was defining and implementing a strategic change for her organization. She was overwhelmed, under-resourced and getting more than enough oversight from her pressured seniors. The project plan was massive, and the forward movement was glacial. I listened, and then,...
"You need to do… " is a phrase I hear often, and I confess, when someone says it to me, I have a visceral reaction to it. I feel my muscles tighten and my mind skips – like my old vinyl records used to do. ...
I’m about to leave the house in the morning and, as I grab my keys and coffee, I ask my teenage son to please clean up the kitchen when he comes home from school. I arrive home nine hours later, ready to swing into action...