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
Many of our long-lived cherished customs died suddenly with the Corona Virus just eight months ago. Gone is the traditional handshake—maybe forever. It’s kind of sad, because I had a terrible time learning the proper technique to shake hands in my early career. I heard
Should I be watching the news? I talk to a lot of people who find it so painful they’ve stopped, and I sure understand.In these unprecedented times when unemployment is high, and food lines are long, many of us are just feeling overwhelmed. We are all
Lisa Taylor is President and CEO of the National WASP WII Museum. She is an expert in home schooling, having home schooled her children who have gone on to graduate from major universities and are established professionals in three fields. Lisa also has a master’s
I don’t know about you, but meetings can be frustrating difficult to endure, and mind-suckingly boring. When you think the word meeting the next word that pops into your mind is boring. It’s a real paradox—99% of all teams meet. Yet during the meeting, a substantial part
Lost Phone, Lost Keys, Lost Car Do you spend too much of your life looking for lost stuff? Then totally over-react? I don’t know about you, but I’m always misplacing things and searching for them—all too often over-reacting to the situation as if I’d lost my
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
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
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
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
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
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
