The first question most people ask when they have a problem is “How will I solve this?” We’re conditioned to go it alone, to figure out how to do everything ourselves, and […]
Leadership
Doing Your Sacred Work
What if one of the best ways you could be of service to the world right now is by doing your work? This question came to me about four weeks ago when […]
Working with Difficult Emotions
About a month ago, during my morning meditation, I was drawn inward to face some heavy feelings that I had started to suppress even before COVID-19 became our daily reality. And that […]
Daily Family Check-Ins
While many of us may be spending more time with our family than we normally would, it’s quite possible that we may also be feeling even more disconnected from them than we […]
Is the Gig Economy the Best Future of Work?
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Breanne Dyck. I’ve seen a lot of articles popping up lately talking about the “future of work.” The exact details vary, of course, but the general […]
3 Ways to Be an Empathetic Leader Under Pressure
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Patricia Bravo. Picture this. You’re under a tight deadline or pressure to deliver. You have no additional resources at the moment, you have more work […]
How Empathy Can Build Better Workplace Relationships
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Mike Ambassador Bruny. There is an interesting dynamic that can exist between leaders and those they lead. Many employees complain about their leaders, and many […]
A Musician’s Lessons on Leadership
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Breanne Dyck. Have you ever heard a piano that sounds tinny? Or one that sounds a little thin, cheap, or a bit like it came […]
How to Focus on Running Your Business (in 5 Easy Steps)
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Chris Ronzio. How far away are you from owning a company that runs itself? For many entrepreneurs stuck in the day-to-day grind, the goal of […]
How to Explore and When to Embrace Empathetic Leadership
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Patricia Bravo. When I tell people that I do work around empathetic leadership, helping leaders strengthen how they use empathy as a tool for team […]
Do Your Organization’s Rules Advance Its Vision and Mission?
I was speaking to the outgoing board chair of a non-profit recently because I’m considering joining the board, and after thirty minutes or so of conversation, she mentioned that she was sad […]
Are You Articulating Your Intuitive Synthesis to Your Team?
How do you learn to see what you don’t see? How do you learn to look for what you don’t know to look for? While those questions sound like something you’d hear […]
Why You Can’t Put Performance Management on the Back Burner
Leaders too often think taking time to examine a team’s performance, whether that’s correcting what’s wrong or amplifying what’s good, is boring or isn’t necessary for getting today’s priorities done. That sort […]
7 Questions to Ask If You’re Failing One Success at a Time
One of the more frustrating things about life, work, and business is how easy it is to look back over what you’ve been doing to see that you’ve done a lot but […]
Choosing Your Strategy in a Media-Centric Business
I was talking to a mastermind buddy who was working through whether to pursue a sponsorship strategy. His concern was that he wasn’t sure whether it was a long-term play or a […]
5 Benefits of Connecting with Your Remote Team in Person
This week, TeamPF and I are on a retreat at the Oregon coast. I’ve made it a point to get us all here because one of the biggest oversights virtual team leaders […]
Why Business Is Never Just Business
While there’s much that could be said about last night’s Presidential Debate, the thread that’s most pulling at me today is about Donald Trump’s dismissal of Hillary Clinton’s points regarding how he’s […]
3 Hidden Truths About Staying On Your Path
I was reading Ego Is the Enemy over the weekend and this passage jumped out at me: “Only you know the race you’re running. That is, unless your ego decides the only […]