I recently read Radical Candor, by Kim Scott, the former CEO coach at Dropbox and Twitter. She specializes in providing honest guidance on leadership with the hope that it transform your relationships at work. The book had some excellent takeaways on giving and receiving praise and criticism. In this post, I collected some of my…

You stand with the belligerent, the surly, and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.  – Father Gregory Boyle Empathy, the ability to understand and share the feelings of another gives you a superpower….

I’ve said it once & I’llsay it again, mindset iseverything, my friend

Originally, stress was not a word that was intended to relate to our emotions or daily lives. Stress was brought into the context of our lives when some physicist was observing pressure, or in physics, “stress” that was being put on an objected and literally thought: “I feel like the object under pressure like I’m…

You can gauge the depth of a relationship in many ways. One powerful way, in particular, is by how often you apologize to each other. Personally, I’m very confident that in my interactions with others I fall short frequently. This does not mean I’m always aware of when I do, I’m not blind to the…