In a letter sent to the Texas attorney general this month, JPMorgan, the nation’s largest bank, signaled its willingness to continue working with the firearm industry. The letter described the bank’s “longstanding business relationships” with the industry in the state, noting that it “anticipates continuing such relationships into the future."
Read MoreI often get asked how I went from being enlisted in the U.S. Army to becoming a massage therapist to becoming an executive coach.
While on the surface those careers seem divergent, my underlying motivation has always been the same: be adventurous, constantly learning, and serving others.
Read MoreDo you know what's often missing in the conversation about diversity, equity, and inclusion?
Climate change.
"Climate change is one of the most profound inequities of the modern era," Somini Sengupta, the global climate correspondent, writes in the New York Times's climate newsletter.*
Read More"What if the beloved community is already real? And we have to live as if." - John Lewis
What if every #solution we need to address #injustice and #climatechange is already here?
Evolving beyond these challenges isn't simply a matter of tools and tech.
Read MoreWhat if the future is soft and revolution is so kind that there is no end to us in sight?
Whole cities breathe and bad luck is bested by a promise to the leaves.
To withstand your own end is difficult.
The future frolics about, promised to no one, as is her right.
Rage against injustice makes the voice grow harsher yet.
If the future leaves without us, the silence that will follow will be an unspeakable nothing.
What if we convince her to stay?
Read MoreHuman drama affects every organization, even manufacturing that likes to believe that every problem can be solved with a technical solution. Let’s level set our expectations for the sake of the next five minutes you spend reading this post by agreeing on that basic premise.
Has your company missed project deadlines because of conflict between senior leaders?
Has your revenue been pushed down two quarters or more because the proverbial left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing?
Has anyone complained of the company being divided into silos?
Final question, I promise: Do you know exactly how much this is costing your company every year?
The manufacturing industry is chalk-full of passionate, hard-working, smart groups of people. Within these groups, there typically live two divisions of labor….the production work force and the client-facing sales force. Each group has goals, skills and knowledge and plenty of work-ethic to go around.
Why then does there seem to be a common challenge between these two divisions? Why is unproductive conflict more common than not in manufacturing companies? Afterall, these are good people with good intentions, right?
Read MoreIn a culture that prizes striving and achievement over family, health and personal sanity, scarcity rules. There is never enough time and you are the least important part of the equation. This often-repeated statement tells the harsh truth, “Everyone can be replaced.”
Read MoreActing on your intuition requires faith because it might not have any evidence yet to back it up. We live in a world that values numbers, ROI, science, and what can be proven. But there are moments in life when the greatest insight needs none of that evidence to be true.
Read MoreAs I sat across a conference table from a client, it dawned on me that most of her life had been defined by the need to be seen as “nice.” On its surface that sounds like no big deal, but it played out in ways that exhausted her, challenged every relationship at work at and home, and often required her to be dishonest.
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