Use Pareto’s 80:20 rule as a model for making changes in what you do and how you do it. “New year new me” is something people at the start of the year think is possible. Instead, smaller 20% changes are easier to sustain and don’t involve the same identity shift which is often the challenge […]

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The storms of life and leadership are those times that test you and challenge you. You look around and nothing is how you thought it would be. You’ve gotten pulled along, unconsciously, in a direction you didn’t choose. Until you can ground yourself, get clear, generate energy and have the confidence to act, you will […]

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“I feel like an island.” I replied, “I understand, I’ve felt that too.” Sometimes you just want to know you’re understood, that you’re not alone feeling what you’re feeling and that it’s ok to feel what you feel. “An island of sanity in a world of chaos” as Margaret Wheatley would say. Leadership can be […]

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