Three years ago, my mother put her dream house on the market and moved 11 hours away to live near my sister and the grandchildren. When I visited her two years ago, she was still camping out in her new house and it seemed like she was camping out in her new life. She was …
I discovered William Bridges through his work with corporate change (Managing Transitions) in which he talks about the different phases of change. In his model, pre-change happens, change happens, then you need time to process the transition (a difficult, uncomfortable phase, where you are letting go and floating untethered in an unfrozen way), followed by an …
Have you ever found yourself caught in a really bad storm? I weathered a terrible one a few years back – it was even worse than the year I ran the store that got flooded, held up, and had the receiving room condemned! The weather had started out sunny – I was wrapping up a …
People who have known me for a while may remember that I used to keep a framed poem on my desk that said, “There have been no dragons in my life, only small spiders and stepping in gum… I could have coped with dragons.” (From a poem by Niki Nymark.) I liked this poem because …
When you notice a problem at work, what do you do? Does your heart sink? Do you close the email and go on to something else? Or do you do something about it? Good managers don’t turn away from problems they discover. If it makes sense for them to fix the problem on their own, they …
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