Growing Patience

by Erik on February 20, 2013

As a leader, one of the hardest skills to maintain in today’s “do more with less” economy is demonstrating patience.  We face challenges everywhere we turn: Inadequate budgeting for critical business needs; Overwhelming workloads for the time allocated; Working with inadequately trained colleagues upon whom we depend to be successful. If our patience was only [...]

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Dirty Work

by Erik on October 27, 2012

I am an unabashed and unapologetic fan of the Rolling Stones.  To celebrate the 50th anniversary of being The World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band, it was seemingly predestined that I compose a post that extracts lessons of mindful leadership from the titles of some of the Glimmer Twins best collaborations (OK – so this [...]

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Not Just a New York State of Mind

August 24, 2012

As I watched the coverage of the shooting around the Empire State Building, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the frightening Gallup poll results that were documented in the first chapter of Mindful Stress Solutions for Today’s Leaders: Fourteen percent of workers feel like striking a coworker; A quarter feel like screaming or shouting because of job [...]

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Mindful Responses to Resentful Employees

August 5, 2012

The highest performing businesses have a leaders who are proficient at having difficult conversations within their organizations.  In fact, we know that when they use mindful leadership techniques, there is a correlation with improved productivity. Techniques Used in Developing Mindful Responses to Resentful Employees Utilizing Active Listening Skills Active listening is comprised primarily of eliminating all [...]

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Painful Leadership Lessons

June 19, 2012

Because of a disease called Avascular Necrosis, I had both of my hips replaced when I was in my early forties.  When replacing my left hip, a specific type of prosthesis was used to help stabilize me so that I could supposedly rehab more easily.  Included in the many risks of this type of surgery, the use [...]

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Managing Boss-Related Stressors

June 4, 2012

Most leadership development articles focus on our relationship between ourselves and those who report to us. Much less attention is focused on how to manage stressors that affect the dynamic with our boss. One of the greatest challenges of managing the stressors with our boss is understanding that s/he often holds the key to our [...]

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Leadership Equanimity Through Self-Awareness

May 17, 2012

Because our world requires such complex interaction and our brains are not naturally equipped to respond effectively to all that stimuli, we must teach ourselves how to manage the stressors we face in an emotionally intelligent way so that we can be better leaders. By practicing how we respond to our emotions, we become the [...]

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A Healthy Fear of Stability

February 17, 2012

A mindful revolution amongst today’s leaders is needed around the concept of “change management“. A consulting cottage industry has developed to aid employees “cope” with change as if it’s the demon to be cast aside. If change is indeed inevitable, why do we approach it with halting hesitation? Instead, our fear would be better associated [...]

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Hope is a Bag of Sh*t

February 9, 2012

About a year ago, a member of my Leadership Team was recounting her attempt at infusing hope into her team. My response, “hope is a bag of sh*t” surprised her as it has others subsequently. The use of hope can create fear when reality fails to meet what was prophesied. Our nation now suffers because [...]

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Gopher Wellness

November 20, 2010

We must challenge our own perception of “I don’t have enough time” and be mindful that there are the same number of hours in a day as yesterday, last week, last month and last year and it is the way in which we use them that counts. By accepting the premise that we cannot take care of others’ needs nor complete the tasks expected of us unless we take care of ourselves first, we accept accountability for our own wellness.

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