Knowing Yourself in a World of Smoke & Mirrors

Social media and you

Do you know where your phone is right now? Have you missed any calls? Texts? Facebook messages, Snapchats, Twitter fights, Emails, Gchats… the list is endless. We’re not just “plugged in” anymore — we’re desperately clutching the plug to the wall. Because if we lose contact for one moment… we’re missing out.   FOMO.  56%…

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Ditching your Victim: Creating the shift from blah… to HELL YEAH!!

Get up or hit snooze? Coffee or tea? Elevator or stairs? We make hundreds of choices before we even sit down at our desks in the morning. They are so rapid-fire and subconscious, the choice is barely noticeable — only the outcome seems to matter. I don’t know about you – but there was a…

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The Poisonous Apple in Leadership

Let’s journey back to simpler times: you’re six years old, watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Fairytale time. Everything was much clearer back then: black and white. Good and evil. Heroes and villains. Pretty and ugly. Right and wrong. Now zoom in on those ‘villains’ — they begin to look distressingly familiar… don’t they?…

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What’s Love Got to Do With It…?

Tina Turner asked it best when she sang “What’s love got to do with it?” And what does love have to do with leadership? Let’s discuss… There’s a new wave of leadership hitting our boardrooms and it isn’t concerned with a right or wrong way to lead. That ol’ rulebook?  Out the window. At least…

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Leadership & Reinvention, Rockstar-Style

There are few artists — few cultural icons — who have been as influential in as many different mediums, to as many different artists, as David Bowie. An original, Bowie — who passed away January 10th — was often thought of as immortal; a superhuman life-force always on the cusp of the unknown. One of the…

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