When Your Team Complains To You

When Your Team Complains To You

A lot of empathetic and “Merchant” (see CVI) type leaders will feel lost when they have team members coming into their office to complain about one another, or to express frustration with the way another behaved in a meeting. As these leaders bring these examples to...
An Environment for Goals

An Environment for Goals

If you’ll remember, I’ve been working on a couple paddleboards for my daughter and I. And the very last step — the final touch — is that final glossy finish. But I’m finding something frustrating: I pour the epoxy, and it looks AMAZING. Gorgeous. Liquid glass. I leave...
Let’s Talk About Meetings

Let’s Talk About Meetings

Holy Crap! Can you believe it’s 2022!?  Well, it’s a new year, and I’m already behind schedule. We all want to save time, right? So let’s address that ginormous time-suck: The Dreaded Meeting. How often do you gather for a meeting — whether in a virtual or...
Why Your 2022 Goals Will Fail

Why Your 2022 Goals Will Fail

Now, the good news is that this post is a lot more hopeful than the title implies. If you consider the whole thing, you are infinitely more likely to succeed. Think about it. Why, for you, have the resolutions and goals of yesteryear failed to come to fruition? I’m...
Christmas Seeds

Christmas Seeds

It is, A time of hope, A time of love, A time of Memories — the joyful and the sad. A time we wish upon a star, A time that brings an ending, A time resting quietly on the doorstep of new beginnings. These are the times of the season.   It’s a time when we...