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Emotions Can Pack a Powerful Punch

How Emotions Can Pack a Powerful Punch

How emotions can pack a powerful punch may sound like a post about anger. This...
Who Is Competent Collaborator 2

Who Is the Competent Collaborator?

Ever since the late 1980's, when people started turning to the Internet as a source...
Role of Simplicity and Complexity in Communication

Simplicity Is As Simplicity Does in Communication

Simplicity is as simplicity does in communication means that it is about what simplicity can...
Reinvigorating your Brain

Reinvigorating Your Brain When Disengaged

Reinvigorating your brain is the solution to being disengaged. This is because disengagement is emotional...
Diversity Lessons from Fused Glass

Harmony and Diversity Lessons from Fused Glass

I recently visited really good friends in Long Island and learned some harmony and diversity...
Contradiction and Creativity make Good Bedfellows

Contradiction and Creativity Make Good Bedfellows

The 'good bedfellow' relationship between contradiction and creativity can be gleaned from recent neuroscience findings....
How to get Followers using Social Intelligence

Followership from Social Intelligence

This week I thought about followership from social intelligence because of my reaction to two...
Insight is Key to Learning and Change

The Insight Behind Perspective Matters for Innovation

I learned about the importance of the source of insight behind a person’s perspective in...
Structured Analytical Approach to Collaboration

A Structured Analytical Approach to Team Collaboration

A recent client of mine said I delivered a structured approach and deep analytical skills...
Power of Perspective on Magnolia Blooms

The Power of Perspective is Motivation Enough

A recent exercise in changing perspective got me thinking about both the power in and...