Attention Leaders: How Are You Navigating The Biggest Psychological Experiment in History, Really?
The Covid-19 pandemic is testing us in unimaginable way. As leaders, it is critical that we be mindful of its impact on our work, including our ability to concentrate, our mood, our energy levels, and on our communication. According to an article in this week’s Scientific American, “At one point roughly one-third of the planet’s population […]
What Can You Use This Leadership Moment to Do Differently?
I’ve been reflective these past two weeks on the massive response to the brutal killing of George Floyd. As a boomer, it feels as if we are re-living the same civil rights struggles from the 1960’s. Has so little progressed in the last fifty years in the march forward towards equality and justice for all? I’ve been reading, […]
Connecting During Covid: Best Practices for Entrepreneurial Business on the Other Side of the World
During this pandemic, it can feel difficult to find a way to reach out to past customers and clients authentically. Last week, I received this email from a shop in Katmandu, Nepal, where we had purchased an exquisite masterful hand-painted mandala, the design of which was from the Dalai Lama. “In this time of COVID19 […]
Leadership In Complex Times: What Are Leaders Talking About Right Now?
One of the casualties of the pandemic is the lack of in-person social contact. This impacts organizational leaders who need to engage in spontaneous, thoughtful conversations as a way of life. In order to offer support to this community, I co-hosted and facilitated an Executive Roundtable last week for this purpose. Comprised of CEO’s of entrepreneurial […]
Why Coaching Should be in Your Essential Pandemic Survival Tool Kit
We are in a time of great chaos. The changes brought to us through the Covid-19 pandemic happened very rapidly, and we had little time to prepare. We now see that the adjustments we have made are more than temporary—they will certainly be here for the for-seeable future, with many rounds of modifications over the months to […]