For those who follow my posts, you’ll notice that I have written very little in the last six months. I could say the reason is I was so full with work, or distracted by the recent presidential election here in the states, or give a number of other reasons why. Sure, some of that was true. What is also true is that I was distracted by a couple of ... [Read more]
Are you an ambitious leader who is at a crossroads – with your team, career, or work/life equation?
I work with smart, successful, capable people, who make big decisions everyday. Sometimes it can be challenging to hold your own stuff when you are in the thick of it. My clients come to me as an objective third party who can hold the space for them, in a safe and neutral way, while they think through where they are, where they want to go, and ... [Read more]
Managing Yourself: How Will You Measure Your Life?
How’s this for a light question on a Friday afternoon? The other day, while I was in Grand Central Station in New York City, parched and looking for water, I came across this fantastic book: On Managing Yourself – eleven articles from Harvard Business Review. They are short, insightful and impactful. I thought it could be enlightening to ... [Read more]
Breathe. You Have Arrived.
Breathe, You Have Arrived. This is the sign that greeted me when I arrived at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health last weekend. I was there on a Kundalini yoga retreat. I practice and teach this form of yoga – not for my career, but probably because of it. What I mean is, it’s the pressures of life that fueled me to search for ways to ... [Read more]
Follow up Friday: The Bare Essentials -Taking my Laptop and Cell Phone for Sure!
This week’s reflection questions: If you have to pack yourself up and live or work somewhere else for a few days, what would you take with you? What priorities would you focus on and leave the rest for another day or just take off the list? If I was displaced for a few days, and I could still, or needed to work, I would take my laptop, cell ... [Read more]
Magic Monday: Staying Steady When You are Displaced
A fleet of trucks required to make my Monday Magic… There are many ways in which you can feel displaced: at work someone younger and/or more talented comes on board and outshines you. Your boss, and major champion, resigns. A new technology is introduced, changing key aspects of your job. At home: Your last child goes off to college. Your spouse ... [Read more]
Magic Monday: Buddha, Twitter and Enlightened Leadership
Where can you find the magic at work today? In the fall I attended the Wisdom 2.0 conference in New York City. As part of that conference, I got a tour of Twitter’s New York office. While waiting in the lobby, I met a fellow attendee: Joshua Isaac Smith. We got into a discussion about wisdom, yoga and spiritual disciplines. My point of view ... [Read more]
Know What Charges You & Stay Calibrated to Full
Yesterday, I shared about the woman business owner who had an outrageously long list of to dos she accomplished in a given day. Some might say this is what energizes her so good for her, go for the insane list! She’s engaged with her life and accomplishing a lot for so many people. Yet, her email “Are You Ready to Quit” says otherwise. It comes ... [Read more]
Follow up Friday: Striving Toward What?
On Monday I asked you to think about what you would do with your free time, specifically time you have gained as a result of delegating and developing your team. Your team could be at work or at home. The point is, what are you striving toward and what is it that you really need to be focused on that no one else can do? Then I got an email from a ... [Read more]
Magic Monday: Freed Up For What?
Words of Manic Monday by The Bangles and modified by Susan Shaner. Musician: Dan Brodax. Where can you find the magic at work today? One of my clients had the goal this year of freeing herself up so she could be out in the community more – the face of her brand. She has worked with her team in the last few months to enhance their capability so ... [Read more]
It's Just Another Magic Monday! An Invitation to Notice & Shift
Magic Monday A few weeks ago I introduced the term Magic Monday. I want to talk more about what I mean by this….This is a take off on the Bangles’s song Manic Monday. I heard recently that 7 out of 10 people in the U.S. are miserable at their jobs. Wow. Really? Those numbers are staggering! I can only imagine how difficult Monday Mornings are ... [Read more]
Working with Shock & Grief
Last Monday, I said I would post an entry every week on Magic Mondays, with a Follow-up Friday. Sometimes we can have the best laid plans… And then life hits us in the face. I was getting ready to post a completely different blog entry today when I got an email from a fellow yoga instructor, that stopped me in my tracks. A friend of mine, who ... [Read more]
Being Present To What Is… And Breathing Into Life, Allows Change To Integrate
I took a break from this blog for 100 days to regroup on my personal and professional life. All I knew is that I needed time to integrate some deeply disturbing personal matters and to not be so public for a time. And despite what I did or didn't do, stuff happens anyway. It's amazing what a business quarter can bring.... And it's amazing what ... [Read more]
Asana Part 2 – Social Entrepreneurism. What Would Buddha Say?
In my last post, I discuss Asana, the company. Founders, Moskovitz and Rosenstein are contributing to the global shift occurring on the planet right now that espouses we are interconnected, transitioning from me to we. They are living their belief that they can turn a profit in a way that does the least harm and actually contributes to social ... [Read more]
Asana Part 1 – Technology-Enabled Team Wisdom
Asana – not just a yoga pose but a company! Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein founded Asana to enable teams to accomplish their goals more effectively. They do this by leveraging technology to form a collective memory, a “source of truth” as they describe it. They facilitate self organization so others see the information – and have a more ... [Read more]
Unplug, Look Up and Converse: Restore Solitude and True Connection
Sherry Turkle speaks wise words when she says, “Always-on/always-on-you devices provide three powerful fantasies: that we will always be heard; that we can put our attention wherever we want it to be; and that we never have to be alone. Indeed our new devices have turned being alone into a problem that can be solved.” …versus a mystery to be ... [Read more]
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