Two Rational Approaches to Decision Making
Where do you go FIRST in your decision making? Thinking or Feeling. Both are rational and both are essential for successful leadership.
All posts by: Deene Morris
Driven to Self-Actualization
How do you stretch and grow, and create meaningful goals in your work and play for your personal betterment and fulfillment?
Empathy is a Muscle. Build it!
There’s nothing that will shut down and block a connection like a lack of empathy. It’s one of the most powerful and misunderstood emotional intelligence skills.
To Influence and Persuade
All requests move along a continuum of two opposites: Directing or Informing. We generally have a preference for one or the other, and the implications are significant.
Permanent Whitewater & The Skylight
Management consultant Peter Vaill calls it permanent whitewater. There’s no sense of an anchor or safe harbor on the shores. But we need a reprieve.
Building Resilience? Here’s a Bright Idea!
Within resiliency resides optimism. It’s a primary and necessary skill. When it’s in short supply, here’s a concrete suggestion of what to do.
For Growth and Fulfillment: Find Your Dish Pit
To begin again, anywhere, anyhow, Begin by doing the dishes. Find that unglamorous, uncomfortable, and yet radically illuminating place that’s calling you right now.
Dogs and Safety: What’s True for Them is True for You
We develop resilience, motivation, innovation, patience and persistence trust. We don’t get anywhere alone. We’re wired to connect!
Surviving Stress Bombs
When we don’t know what we don’t know until we don’t know it! A reflection on a stress bomb explosion and a road map to reset and recovery.
Before You Fire Him: Try This First!
How to move a difficult conversation away from pointing blame to one that is respectful and holds potential for a positive outcome.