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When Do We Choose the Social Contract & When Do We Choose the Economic Contract?

By Johanna May 20, 2020 question of the week 2 Comments

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…

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How Can You Create Boundaries?

By Johanna April 23, 2020 question of the week 2 Comments

As 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…

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How Resilient is Your Family?

By Johanna April 1, 2020 discuss the undiscussable, question of the week No Comments

As 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…

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Will They Miss Me When I’m Gone?

By Johanna January 30, 2020 question of the week No Comments

I 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…

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How Do You Want to Be in the World?

By Johanna January 1, 2020 question of the week No Comments

I 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).…

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Who Is Part of Your Support System?

By Johanna December 26, 2019 question of the week 5 Comments

I 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…

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When Does it Make Sense to Change Your Lane?

By Johanna November 27, 2019 question of the week 2 Comments

On 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.…

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How Do You Balance Your Past, Present, and Future?

By Johanna August 22, 2019 question of the week 3 Comments

Adaptability 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…

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What Does Integrity Mean to You?

By Johanna August 15, 2019 question of the week 2 Comments

I 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…

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Is Happiness Your Goal?

By Johanna June 12, 2019 question of the week 2 Comments

Several 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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