As a leader, if you solicit feedback from others, you have to be clear about what you want. Are you…
Passport to uncharted territory
These days, I’m often reminded how lucky I am to have a passport to be able to travel freely…
Conscious Gossiping
Frankly, once in a while, let’s admit that it feels good to speak about others, convey stories about them –…
Arrogance!
It has happened to all of us: Judging somebody without knowing exactly what was going on for the other one…
Violent agreement
How often do we fiercely fight with our dear ones to defend a point of view that ends up being…
Fired or promoted?
The idea for “Fired or promoted” comes from a conversation I had with a client who told me that the tendency…
Suspending our judgments
Suspending our judgments is an important practice to undertake, but often a very dissonant one: when we genuinely don’t want…
A challenge for Thanksgiving: Overcoming our tribal instincts
In a VUCA world (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous), unexpected events happen more often, more suddenly and more intensely. We…
HBM, part 12 (Final): Be on a Hot Button Strike!
After making a date with your hot buttons, meeting your colleagues for a hot button happy hour party, launching a hot…
H.B.M, part 12: Do a three-day Hot Button Cleansing!
I'm relentlessly - or desperately- pursuing creative ways to manage our emotional, undesirable and ineffective reactions. After making a date…