On most days, usually during a walk, a swim at Barton Springs, or after a morning meditation, I’ll have a brief moment of being overwhelmingly present to the gift it is just to be here. I look down at my hands, that are starting to look more and more like […]
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A Feeling of Safety in the Office
“You Do your Best Work when you Feel Safe” – Julianna Margulies Recently, we had the opportunity to take a leadership team offsite for two and a half days. Our job was to guide them in creating an environment where it was safe for them to speak up. Their new […]
An Update on Recovery
A settlement is reached in the case of Nelson and Robinson. In April of 2018, Starbucks found itself in the middle of a conscious capitalism crisis. Founded on the principle of “inspiring the human spirit” through coffee, a mission breach occurred on a regular morning in Philadelphia. Two innocent men […]
The Symptom and the Cause
On Energy We have stages in life that feel lower in physical and mental energy than others. Perhaps it’s a stage related to illness or stress. It seems logical that we would look at the cause, not the symptom, but what do we normally do? We grab another cup of […]
You Get What You Ask For
In business, relationships, and in life, expect to get what you ask for and not more. Some people will over-deliver and give you more than what you asked for. Consider that to be a bonus. But expecting people to deliver on something exactly “how I would do it” is a set-up for disappointment […]
Commitment Overwhelm
More often than I would like to admit, I find myself being overwhelmed by the number of commitments I have made in any given week. My default behavior is to make sure I stay driven to fulfill on everything I have said “yes” to, at all cost. Inevitably, things pile […]
Serving the Customer
In the future, if you are not serving the customer, you are history. I spent last weekend here in Austin at a Conference-Festival, “Future Frontiers.” What I experienced was nothing short of a global community of visionary entrepreneurs and creatives who are redesigning the paradigms of culture and society, often […]
Needing to speak up? Here’s how | Fundamental #3
A large portion of our work at Momentum Consulting is coaching executives, managers, and teams on how to build, or sometimes re-build, trust between themselves. One of the ways we do this is using communication tools based on ownership-accountability combined with a spirit of partnership and collaboration. Over twenty years, working […]
Pay Attention to Details | Fundamental #25
Generalization: Why your brain is blind to your own typos It’s hard to catch your own errors. This can be something as trivial as transposing the letters in “the” to “hte,” or something as significant as omitting the core explanation of your article. Our brain generalizes words & letters as we re-read […]
Lead By Example | Fundamental #21
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? […]