March 2019

Stress made me do it

March 29, 2019

True autonomy and choice comes when we are free of our own automatic responses.—Krishnamurti (an Indian philosopher and spiritual teacher) It is when we are under stress that we are most likely to lose control of our emotions and release an automatic behavioural response that we immediately regret. This is when those responses own you, […]

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Take your foot off the brake

March 15, 2019

As I said in the last leadership tip, change comes less from putting your foot on the gas with new behaviours, skills, etc. and more from seeing how you have one hidden (to you!) foot firmly planted on the brake. This is easier said than done. Those old habits are deeply embedded in us and […]

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Organizations don’t change, people do

March 1, 2019

We talk about how it is important to change the organizational culture. But culture change is an outcome of individual behaviour change that grows. To focus on culture change is kind of a cop-out. We all need to look in the mirror and ask and commit to what is it that I need to do […]

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