by Nancy Chek | Sep 12, 2024 | Integrity, Productivity
I’ve been working on all of my integrity issues, making progress every week, except a month ago I went crazy on my promise to clean my desk (which was a bit like excavating Pompei) and then back-slid—so, now I’m totally out of integrity because part of my integrity... 
by Doug McVadon | Apr 11, 2024 | Integrity, Leadership
Sometimes the listening I need to tune up is my ability to hear what’s in the unsaid. There is something behind the words that is always being communicated, and the people I experience as truly listening to me get more from me than just my words. Melinda read a text... by Kevin Bullard | Feb 1, 2024 | Integrity, Leadership, Teamwork
During this past Tuesday’s Being a Leader reading with two of my colleagues, we read slides related to authentic listening. This sentence showed me the depths to which I am not listening: This kind of listening requires you to be authentically committed to recreating... 
by Nancy Chek | Jan 25, 2024 | Accountability, Integrity, Transformation
I think I know the difference: Facts are what happens, and interpretations are the meanings I give to what happens. Except interpretations are not the meanings I give to what happens. The meanings simply arise. They exist automatically, with no effort—or... 
by Kevin Bullard | Nov 15, 2023 | Integrity, Productivity, Well-Being
For the past three weeks or so the distinction completion has been rolling around in my mind. I’ve been paying attention to all the areas where I start something and don’t finish (defined as completely done or arriving at a predetermined stopping point). Some... 
by Nancy Chek | Aug 24, 2023 | Integrity, Leadership, Transformation
Storm. From light to dark in a second. Thunder but no rain. I wonder if this is what it sounds like in Kyiv—except my only worry is if the power goes out and kills my a/c. So no, people in Ukraine probably have a different occurring. Our questions might be...