In the last eight months I have had the privilege of working closely with the senior leadership of a rather large organization, focused specifically on assessing and analyzing the organization as it stands today. Our work has...
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So, last week some of you may have seen part 1 of this blog where I talked about how, at SHIFT and through my entire career, some of the best decisions I’ve seen made have come from healthy friction, discussion and conversation.
Go F*#% Yourself! Those were the last words I heard as I hung up the phone with a disappointed candidate. Here’s the thing, I’d like to say those words burned me, but they didn’t. Instead, I had an overwhelming feeling of sadness...
When an organization fails to live their values, the ripple effect varies from slight impact to massive impact (impact equals customer attrition, employee attrition, revenue and profit loss, etc.). If, for example, the...
Success is not measured in a single unit; it's encompassing of every aspect of our lives. This includes our personal and professional goals. While they may take us on different avenues to accomplish, the overarching journey...
Hiring people is tough. Managing people is tougher. Deciding what to do with the “employee on the fence” is the toughest job of all. For those of you who have managed people, you've undoubtedly come across this scenario time and...
Words matter. Some studies show that as much as 93% of communication effectiveness is determined by nonverbal elements (body language, tone, inflection, and pace of speech), and that only 7% is determined by actual word choice. ...
Asa women in business, I was excited when Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, first came out – I not only thought it was my duty to read it, but was expecting it to be the answer to all my...
Originally posted on LinkedIn, June 13, 2014: Almost 30 years ago, a groundbreaking study emerged that lent a significant amount of weight to the power of positive thinking. A study in Health Psychology authored by psychologist...
