The Soulful Leader Blog
Don’t Make Me Choose
I recently had dinner with a young woman who went into near panic mode about what to order and then told me I had to decide for her. Part of me was horrified, and part of me saw a much bigger picture, a key for leadership and an answer that had been looking for me....
You Are the Key to the Loneliness Epidemic
While the internet and social media allow us to connect to more people than ever, it’s creating huge divides. Now AI is supplanting what has given us our sense of value - the work we do. There’s no doubt that we define a person's worth by their productivity. It’s...
Is Being Transactional Killing Your Business?
Our current way of doing business is completely transactional. Meaning the way we interact is everyone doing things with an expectation of what they’ll get in return. You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours, or 'what’s in it for me?' “Yes”, you say, “this is normal,...
Playfulness is a Business Skill
Have you ever noticed how ideas flow freely when your mind is relaxed? That when you stop actively working on a problem, an answer shows up? We often think of these as ‘shower’ moments, and they can happen anytime we relax our minds. I recently had my own shower...
Scarcity or Abundance?
As we move into a new year of unprecedented extremes, change and volatility, we can choose the same old story, or we can choose a different way.
When Someone Steals Your Idea
In the past we might have fretted about thinking, ‘oh shoot, someone stole our thunder’, or ‘why didn’t we ____ (fill in the blank) ‘. Instead, we celebrated.
Letting Go to Hold On
We played idea games, using the rules of improv (agree, make opportunities, never mistakes) to explore how we could get everything we wanted out of our year.