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Our first awareness of intelligence comes during the schooling process where our intelligence is graded over and over.  Our minds develop technical skills, which we hone with advanced education and rely on as we secure [...]

Culture is that thing growing in your petri dish, aka your organization, whether or not you are investing in it. We measure culture at the organization level, looking at the top leaders to shape and [...]

Take a moment and imagine... You dropped the ball. Can't remember the critical opening line of your speech or presentation. You hit reply all. Forgot that one critical piece of information. Failed to plan ahead, [...]

As we turn the calendar to November (and ever closer to year's end), here in America, thoughts turn to Thanksgiving.  The "official" time for gratitude. However, thanks-giving can be much more than a once a [...]

“Much of what human beings do is done in the service of belongingness.” Fresh out of grad school, I worked with a wise career coach who encouraged me to answer three key questions for every [...]

What is career mapping?   Career mapping is a colorful way of graphically showing on a one-page chart a person’s career progression or development. A typical career map will include a person’s: Job progression over time [...]

I know that you move, in that you get from one day to the next (hopefully), but do you really move through your day? As defined by the dictionary: Move(verb): to pass from one place [...]

Professional Presence is an amalgamation of any number of leadership skills that are personal, and very vulnerable in both exposure and growth and are also public in developing relationships at a variety of levels in [...]

Think about the company you most admire, then consider what their leadership does, says, and creates. Maybe Zappos is your go-to company, or Apple. Both have innovation strongholds, and reputations for leading in the marketplace. [...]

It’s one of the biggest challenges introverts in business say they face: the sales process. There’s an old story floating around about what it means to do business development. Our mind fills with visions of [...]