We operate at various levels in our families, work, and society. We have shortcut names for these behaviors: the economic contract and the social contract. When we use the economic…
Read moreAs I connect with various colleagues and friends who now work from home, they all say the same thing. “I’m always working. I work all day and all night. The…
Read moreAs we live through the COVID-19 pandemic, we see cracks in how we support our partners and loved ones. Some couples divide the work so that only one of the…
Read moreI read Dwayne Phillips’ One of the Ultimate Compliments at Work and started thinking about being indispensable. I wonder if people want to be indispensable or if they want to…
Read moreI like years that end in zero or five. I think of these years as bookends. A nice way to wrap the previous years and to start the next year(s).…
Read moreI read Reginald Braithwaite’s tweet about people who work long hours and their success. Some of the comments discuss not just the single parent, but the support system all successful…
Read moreOn my way to an appointment the other day, I saw traffic backed up. The left lanes—the through lanes—looked stuck. I signaled and turned to get into the middle lane.…
Read moreAdaptability challenges me on several levels. The biggest is how to balance my experience, with my present, to look towards the future. I might be stuck in the past. I…
Read moreI meet a number of people who have great ideas. And, in order to “push” the ideas through the organization, they tell me that the ends justify the means. I…
Read moreSeveral of my clients have told me they want to help people be happy. They measure—well, they attempt to—each individual’s happiness. I have not found measuring happiness all that helpful.…
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