Feeling overwhelmed? Like you're constantly treading water, barely keeping your head above the surface? You're not alone. In today's world, overwhelm is a common experience, but there are things you can do so it doesn't control your life. Here are some practical, actionable steps to tackle overwhelm head-on and regain a sense of calm and a level of control.
Read MoreWe think of trust as precious, and yet it’s the basis for almost everything we do as civilized people. Trust is the reason we’re willing to exchange our hard-earned pay cheques for goods and services, pledge our lives to another person in marriage, cast a ballot for someone who will represent our interests. We rely on laws and contracts as safety nets, but even they are ultimately built on trust in the institutions that enforce them. We don’t know that justice will be served if something goes wrong, but we have enough faith in the system that we’re willing to make high-stakes deals with relative strangers.
Read Moren 1921, Harvard Business School produced its first single-page mimeographed case study for students, detailing the practical dilemmas faced by managers at the General Shoe Company.
Intended to prompt class discussions, the case method has since been adopted by schools around the world as a core part of teaching.
Case studies have been utilized ever since to prompt discussion and forensic analysis, extending to real-life cases of both business successes and failures. The latter, one would expect, with a view to learning from others' mistakes, so as not to repeat them.
Read MoreAfter several years of working with teams to help them increase their effectiveness, we’ve noticed how some continue to thrive post the engagement with us, and others stall completely. Some continue the learning and some retreat back to working in silos, in the months following a team development program.
What makes the difference?
Read MoreIt would be well known and accepted by our clients I believe, that before someone can be a good leader of others they must have ‘cleaned up their own act’ [or at least be consciously working on it], so it doesn’t get in the way of being the best leader possible.
That’s easier said than done of course, but knowing your triggers, keeping them top of mind and having an accountability buddy or a Coach, can really help.
Something Travis Kalanick may have contemplated before he got caught on the infamous dash-cam footage.
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