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I recently had the opportunity to chat with Paul Kirby, author of The FUSE Pathway: How to Find and Live a Fulfilling Life.
Paul has discovered that his joy comes from combining his interests in art, engineering, and even philosophy into what he does as an artist and author.
He even built a robot which creates its own art. So I feel a kinship because I also have many diverse interests.
Read the rest of this entry »When you’re involved in the decisions, you have more ownership of whatever results.
Every time I run across this principle, which is surprisingly often, I’m surprised about its nuances. Whether we’re talking about our kids, employees, volunteers, partners … The fact is that people are more inspired and motivated by things they actually have some influence over.
You can tell your employees what to do, and in fact you may even think that’s your job. The problem is that they may not be particularly motivated to do their best work in this case. It’s not that your directions were wrong – it’s that they didn’t have any input in the process. So you get compliance, not engagement.
Read the rest of this entry »There are a couple of ways to think about resilience.
The one we usually want to fall into is “rebounding back to normal.” After all, “normal” is the comfort zone and usually is our happy place.
The other way is to define resilience as “adapting to a new normal.” In this case, we have to admit that the world moves on, and the old normal may never exist again. Or parts of it might need to change.
Read the rest of this entry »When we think about opportunities we encounter, it’s often with the perspective that the universe is being generous to us.
It’s not necessarily something we can create ourselves – it’s from the outside in.
But I’ve found that I have MUCH more influence on the opportunities which come to me than I ever thought possible. It starts with a surprising perspective which sounds like a contradiction:
Read the rest of this entry »I started out my career as a software engineer. Software doesn’t tend to be quite as elegant as other forms of machinery, but I totally get the concept that things are beautiful when they run efficiently and reliably.
That’s why I’ve found it amusing that my emphasis has shifted almost entirely to the “people side” of business. People are messy, unpredictably, and endlessly challenging.
I guess it’s because I’m a problem-solver at heart, and people offer an infinite array of problems to work on. Yet, we envision our businesses as that “well-oiled machine,” running like a top.
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The Values-Based Business 