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What Could Possibly Come From a Dot?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: We can overlook our abilities because they feel ordinary to us. Yayoi Kusama’s dots invite us to consider what we might develop from the things we take for granted about ourselves. I discovered Yayoi Kusama today. I was drawn in by a piece of art that someone…
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Blindspotting: How to Navigate Invisible Risks
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences Some of the greatest risks leaders face are difficult to recognize because they emerge from trusted strengths, established assumptions and information that never reaches the decision-making table. Blindspotting helps leaders examine what may be missing from their understanding before an invisible risk becomes a visible, costly consequence.…
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What To Do When Your Brain Hijacks Your Day
Some days your brain hijacks the whole thing. That was today. A personal matter reached in, took the wheel, and drove off with the hours I’d meant to spend elsewhere. By the time I looked up, the day was mostly gone. Lost to total derailment. I want to be honest about it, because I think…
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how much truth can you accept about yourself?
Do you believe everything that’s said about you? Do you believe everything you’ve said, are saying about yourself? Not knowing who you really are is keeping you stuck. What do I mean? There are many things that have been said to us, about us…stuff we’ve just accepted as truth. Perhaps someone we admired said it,…
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It doesn’t matter your level of success…
No matter your level of success, if you encounter a challenge, the solution comes from asking the right questions, digging deep, being truthful and discovering what works for you. Franchises have figured out operations and product – marketing is up to you. You may take onboard a tried and true consultative approach but it’s still…
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What Motivates You?
I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Growing up my mom made bread. I loved the bread. I didn’t like the crust. I saw my friends bring their sandwiches to school crust-less. Not in my home. You HAD to eat the crust. So I devised a method of eating the crust first…all the way around…
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Are Your Investments Generating a Dividend or Loss?
Whenever we talk about investments, we’re usually talking about money. Many of us know that we need to save money, invest wisely and reduce our debt. Few have a concrete strategy for saving and reducing debt and almost no strategy regarding investing. While many of us would like to change the RESULTS in our lives,…
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How Pure is Your Intention?
Jonathan Fields got me thinking about this in a recent blog post about Intention and Regret. His discussion centred around this quote It is said that if our intention is to help others…we will never have any regret. Regret is a result of trying to make “me” happy – Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche or “The Sakyong” I think that…
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Holding a POSITION of Leadership is not the same thing as BEING a Good Leader
*This article was also published in my weekly column in the Trinidad and Tobago Business Newsday Jan 9 2014 A couple weeks ago I wrote a column titled *Why Outside the Box Thinking has Led to Inside the Box Stagnation.* Here’s an excerpt that will lay the foundation for today’s column: Over the past decade,…
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