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Crying is not unprofessional. It’s human. Sensitivity is a virtue, not a disgrace. I was seated across from my new boss, just 90 days into my new role overseeing operations and community for a professional network.…
Staccato “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.…
Black Marks and Gold Stars “The way to start would be, first, when we feel the tendency to blame, to try to get in touch with what it feels like to be holding on to…
A Third, Much Greater Thing “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” – Lao Tzu I used…
It Shifts Everything. “Do you love yourself enough to listen with the ears of your heart to the other voices of yourself speaking?” – Beno Kennedy Ansel Adams once wrote in a letter…
Thresholds Threshold, noun: the magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for a certain reaction, phenomenon, result, or condition to occur or be manifested. Just last week I was laying half-naked…
Knowing Where You Are I come from a long line of farmers. Six generations ago, my great-great-great-great-greats settled in a rolling valley rich with dark soil in a small unincorporated farm town called Cream,…
Haute Couture (or, A Suit That Fits) “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde I’ve always been one to question the status quo and go my own way. This modus operandi butted up against…
Congruence In this week’s podcast episode with Evgeny Shadchnev, CEO of Maker’s Academy in London, there’s a lot of talk about building trust. Jerry notes that trust is a by-product of…

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