In a recent New York Times Magazine article called “Breathing in vs. Spacing out: Is mindfulness always best?” author Dan Hurley compares the benefits of being mindful versus letting your mind wander, and concludes that too much mindfulness could hamper creativity. Yes, you read that correctly: too much mindfulness could hamper creativity. What I want […]
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The other day I was working with two senior executives at a global healthcare company. They came to me because they need to work together but are having trouble getting along. It’s a familiar story: They started out as friends, but in the midst of a series of disagreements and power struggles, one said some
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In my line of work, it’s easy to look for something wrong to fix. Much of the time, leaders call me precisely because there’s a problem – a team can’t get along; a core market has been disrupted; communication has broken down; a leader is not performing at his potential…the list of what’s wrong can
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