Voltaire said: “Perfect is the enemy of good.” Jim Collins said: “Good is the enemy of great.” Steven Fulmer said: “Great is the enemy of done.”  That’s a lot of enemies.  So let’s break it down. Voltaire was talking about the balance between purpose and resources....

It’s time to bid on your schedule at work. You know the drill: RHIP baby. Rank Hath Its Privilege. “Hey man, I paid my dues; I get whatever shift I want. When you have seniority you get to do that, too.” Or perhaps your version is more literally an issue of rank: You...

I had a request recently from a reader to write a post on dealing with a narcissist boss. Now, I'm not a psychologist, so I can't speak as deeply to this as a mental health professional would. That being said, I do have some experience with it, having worked for a...

Are you familiar with the Manifest Movement? It's this idea that we can visualize and imagine our goals and desires so strongly, so perfectly, that they actually come true. It's so prevalent in our society that you've probably at least heard or seen a reference to it...

Last week, I shared a post about how important it is to 'reconcile the and.' The times in life, in our society, where a wonderful thing and a terrible thing are both true...those times require emotional work to reconcile. I received more feedback than normal about...

More and more, it seems like we as a culture, a country, a people...leaders...are having difficulty with the word 'and.' The founding fathers built a country that is truly remarkable…and many were slaveowners. They wrote a brilliant constitution...and that...

  If you were asked how important your name is, what would you say? I mean, besides, “Huh? What the heck do you mean?” I mean: how important is your name? How important is it others get it right, pronounce it correctly? It’s more than a sound. More than a way to...

Who are you influencing today? No one? I assure you that is most definitely not the case. Whether you are aware of it or not, whether you like it or not, everyone has influence. You are always exerting it, and it can be dangerous to pretend it's not there. Not...

Once I was working with a team, and the situation they kept facing was that one team member felt like they were being picked on. Now, according to most everyone else on the team, they weren’t being picked on at all. Rather, they actually had some performance issues,...

When it comes to conflict, sometimes it isn't the subject of the conversation that causes the rift: it's the framework in which we discuss it. It's the assumptions we make when we dive in. In my experience, the CVI can be a great way to understand this on a deeper...