Sometimes we are prompted to do unusual things that our logical mind tells us are dumb, even impracticable. Sometimes those things turn out to move us in directions we would not have allowed ourselves to go, that serve us in ways we could not have imagined. Here’s how one of those worked out for me.
It is better for your health, it makes the best use of you, and you get to live a life you love. Why would you not design your business (or your career) to suit you?
Are you charged with bringing more innovation into your organization? Looking for a new approach, an edge that will keep you in the forefront? Then find your highly sensitive people, because they will notice things others don’t; and think differently.
If you are not free to be unique, you are not free to innovate. Because it takes many different types of people to innovate…
If you are one of the ~20% of the population who is highly sensitive, you have probably heard (ad nauseam, since you were a child) “oh, you’re too sensitive”, or “what are you worrying about that for”, or even “hmm, I have never thought about that”. You have probably felt mystified by others (and they by you); […]
What is your Unassailable Competitive Advantage? Is it the top-level school you went to? Your sales levels, or how many times you have hit your targets at work? How many companies you have started? Or even who your family is and the weight your name carries? These are external advantages that you can put in your cv, resume, or calling card, but […]
What would give me new perspectives or out-of-the-box thinking?
It can be tempting for business people to think suicide only happens to others, but even the most successful among us are not immune. Here are resources for those who may be suicidal.
It’s hard to focus these days, isn’t it? If you are like many people I speak with, even if you manage to turn off all the external noise (phone, text, email, internet, television) there’s a lot of internal noise going on as well. Why did s/he leave? How am I going to protect my child? Should I […]
The power of a simple conversation never ceases to amaze me. A coaching colleague of mine, Sue, spoke told me recently about a 30-year-old client of hers in China who is not willing to settle for the role women have traditionally played in her community. Sue commented that this young woman is not limited by […]