The next few weeks will feature my friend and colleagues’s Bob Silverstein’s column from Poker Pro Magazine which was originally published late last year. Being mindful, slowing down and knowing the feelings and thoughts that are going on inside yourself is not always easy unless you are in your spa of choice and being led [...]
The Most Overlooked Advantage You Have at Work: PASSION
By Selena Rezvani, Author of “The Next Generation of Women Leaders”
If you only remember one piece of career advice – find a career that feeds your passion. No matter how monetarily driven you may be, perks or sizeable salaries won’t lead to lasting professional happiness. You passion, [...]
When a coach may help
An alternative to traditional therapy focuses more on the potential of the future than the problems of the past
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Carol Kauffman has a question for you: If your life could look the way you’d really like it to look, what would that be?
Work it out
The practice of coaching [...]
At the end of ALL THINGS CONSIDERED today, the final host question to panelist was “what will Jay Leno take over next?”
I am a not a late night TV view of the traditional broadcast channels but what I have learned is this: leno’s prime time TV talk/variety show is a big failure and now GE/NBC [...]
Some have said that being also to live with contradictions and paradoxes is an indication of maturity or intelligence. Well, maybe. However I am still more than disappointed about recent NYC Council actions. As Haberman wrote in the NYC on the 18th of December: The City Council killed plans for a shopping mall inside the [...]
On radio news today I heard of a conflict regarding a development project in one of the NYC boroughs.
Developers want to a convert a property into a mall however the community is demanding that workers in the mall will be guaranteed a living wage. What’s a living wage? According to the report around $10 or [...]
In Thomas Friedman’s NYT op-ed about the Afghanistan work last week, he expresses skepticism about the increase of troops targeted for deployment there. In his discussion he states that authoritative dictates rarely change behavior.
“People do not change when you tell them they should: they change when their context tells them they must.”
This is as true for [...]
The reason I reprinted Peter Bregman’s HBR blog post is because in it, Peter suggests to his client is a technique that we often use in our resilience through hardiness seminars. It is one of the key component of hardiness coping. One needs to engage one’s imagination including hopes and fears when facing current challenges, [...]
the following post is by my friend and colleague John Baldoni. Please let me know what you think.
Great recessions can provide great opportunities especially for those who want to jump start their careers. Many might think this is heresy; after all in tough times, isn’t it better to keep my head down and wait for [...]
The Broadway production of David Manet’s two character drama, Oleanna, achingly addresses human vulnerabilities, and the way institutions attempt to protect us from those vulnerabilities.
The play involves the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students, who, by accusing him of sexual exploitation, spoils his changes of being accorded tenure. When [...]