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Perspectives to Shift Thinking

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Strategic Leadership

Three pillars of Strategic Leadership: Self-Awareness and Personal Mastery, Development and Empowerment, and Leading Transformative Change.

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Catalysts & Inhibitors

Think of a major change you made at some point in your life: what precipitated that change? It could have been an accumulation of events...

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Boundaries and Barriers

There’s a gap between where you are and where you want to be. What's in the way? How do you perceive at that gap? Do you think of it as...

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Distill Your Mind

We tend to label people or things and assign them into “boxes” – by gender, race, political persuasion, nationality, you name it. And,...

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Out of Solution

You stir a little sugar into a cup of hot tea. Notice the crystals dissolve and “disappear.” As the tea cools, you notice a little sugar...

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Emergence

I find the phenomenon of “emergence” one of the most fascinating marvels of nature. Understanding and appreciating it can change your...

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Winter Transformation

December 21 marks the first day of winter. For many, it can feel like a time of cold, dark, and bleak nothingness. Let’s just say, it can...

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Convergent Divergent

Remember playing with a magnifying glass as a kid, using the light of the Sun to burn holes in leaves? Well, that’s a convergent lens: it...

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Going Through a Phase

A high school chemistry experiment has been with me the rest of my life: Fill a glass beaker with ice. Put it on a tripod with a bunsen...

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Stages of Mastery

If you’re like me, you enjoy learning new things. But you also realize that you're not going to be good at those things . . . at least in...

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Imaginal Disc

We all learned the cycle of metamorphosis in school as kid: The butterfly lays its eggs on a leaf. In time the larva ( caterpillar )...

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Your True Colors

Fall is a beautiful time of year. The leaves turn beautiful colors and change is in the air. Ask yourself: Why do leaves “turn” colors in...

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Screw LIFE!

Every cycle seems to repeat itself but actually moves us forward like a screw through time. It’s an odd phenomenon actually: rotating one...