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Were you built for Joyless Collaboration?

I have a real bias toward teams that know how to laugh. That is partly a cultural belief and partly […]

Sometimes, the most impressive thing we do at work is remain upright and answer emails in complete sentences. The last

Bruce Lee said, “Be like water,” which sounds serene until you realize he was also describing how to survive modern

Last night my client’s coaching session turned quickly on a sentence I suspect many adults carry around like a default

Some of us do not know what to do with an easy win. We say we want things to go

UPRIGHT: The disciplined pause between stimulus and story.REVERSED: Letting one vague message become the board chair of your entire nervous

“I don’t let myself get too excited.”A client said that with the calm confidence of someone announcing a retirement contribution.

You do not need to join a cult to be influenced by the people around you.You just need a recurring

Most workplace conflict gets analyzed at the level of tone. Too fast. Too blunt. Too emotional. Too quiet. Too much

My sense of humor has a habit of showing up precisely when a situation has become professionally ridiculous. Which is