Tuesday Report
Creating a Safe Place to Say What You Think
Can you get to a safe place where you can say what you think? My first gut reaction would be, “Not a chance. You can’t.” You’re out of your mind if you think you can take what’s rumbling around in your head, drag it
Alignment—the “Piece Missing” from Organizational Success
The process of alignment in most organizations today is episodic and often crisis-driven, rather than an organizational strategy. Organizations must embrace a system of aligning and coaching their top talent as a business strategy. How are business teams and sports teams alike? “Well actually, they’re
Coronavirus Isolation: How the Brain Reacts to Disruptive Change
Do you feel particularly tired theses days? A lot of our clients say working from home remotely is exhausting. Jack and I find that to be true. Why would it be tiring to work remotely when you don’t leave your own driveway and you’re surrounded
Managing Your Mindspace
Do you remember back in the 90s—if you were around then—when computers were always running out of capacity and you had to try to add memory? The times I tried to add capacity really didn’t get me very far. In the end, I had to
IN THE AGE OF THE PANDEMIC, STOP WORRYING, START LIVING
How do we manage the worries and anxieties of today? The 2020 pandemic/economic crisis is challenging us in ways this generation has never seen before. In an important and largely forgotten book, Dale Carnegie wrote in 1948, “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living,” he gave
Planning for Tomorrow When Today is Scary
It’s pretty distracting to see new infections break records every day. It’s hard to imagine what it will be like in the future when today is pretty scary. Navigating the pandemic is like finding yourself beamed suddenly into a mysterious large city at nighfall with no street
What I Say When I Talk to Myself
What do I say about “me” to “me?” I first learned how to think about myself from my West Texas relatives. They taught me their view of how to act, react, interact, and reach conclusions. My West Texas relatives were cotton farmers working land that looked like
Rosie The Riveter–A Heroic Symbol Of The Greatest Generation
Who is the Rosie the Riveter of today’s Covid-19 pandemic crisis? Could it be you? Rosie the Riveter was a cultural icon of WWII (1939-1945), who was created as a composite of the spirit of the women of her day who made the war effort successful
A GIFT TO YOU AND YOUR TEAM
FROM CAROL KALLENDORF, PhD: Founder, Delta Associates, Inc. A summa con laude graduate of Duke University, Carol has been a lifelong consultant in the field of human performance, enabling thousands of people to achieve a better career and life. Carol has a renowned ability to
THE NEW NORMAL – HOW DO YOU FIT IN?
Robert Redfield, US CDC Director, recently stated grimly, “The Covid-19 virus has brought this nation to its knees.” As a member clearly of the at risk population, I respectfully and strongly object to what the Center for Disease Control director says. Corona Virus neither has
Black Lives Matter—What’s Next?
“Black Lives Matter!” We see throngs of thousands of people in the middle of a global pandemic in every city who shout the truth from the housetops. The murder of George Floyd over a 20 dollar bill, was for me the dramatic definition of “institutional racism.”
WHO AM I? — IN A WORLD OF CHAOS?
As countries reopen businesses across the world after so long in lockdown, it’s a little bit like reopening ourselves and our own personalities. How do we maintain a sense of personal identity in a world where we are asked to relinquish significant decision-making–like where physically
