How to Implement Empowerment Effectively
In our experience, the word “empowerment” is widely misunderstood in both corporate, political, and public life. To get a better...
Three Secrets to Maximizing Your Power
In coaching and consulting in a variety of companies around the world, we find that there is often confusion about the terms...
Waking Up From the Trance of Disempowerment
Dr. Milton Erickson said, “Most people walk through the world in a trance of disempowerment.” Erickson, considered to be the father of...
When Good Intentions Are Not Enough
You may remember the story about a rich man and a robber sharing a train compartment. As the rich man slept, the robber searched for the...
How to Gain Perspective When Challenges Arise
In our book on Thriving in Business and Life we mention the story about villagers discovering a baby floating by. They rescued her… then...
How Hard Work Can Thwart Your Vision
Thriving is a state of mind and a way of living. Ironically, what most often interferes with thriving is our obsessive efforts to...
How to Make an Even Mundane Project Irresistible
Einstein believed that imagination is more important than knowledge. We agree, because not only can imagination be used to apply...
Are Other People Trying to Force Their Values on You?
We’ve all met authentic people who were living their values. Most of them weren’t celebrities. They were ordinary people, like the car...
Why Some Companies Are Installing Bias Monitors
We’ve been discussing the “virus of bias” in recent blogs, exploring how it can lead individuals and groups to become “brain blind” to...
What if You're Brain Blind and Don't Know It?
What do you see in this image? Some people see a tired old woman. Others see a stylish, slightly coy young woman. Why? It's an optical...
