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Spring Cleaning Takes on a New Meaning

3/30/2018

 
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Guest Post By: Vaishali Jadhav
​Facilitator, The Center for Professional Education at The University of Texas at Austin
​President, Conscious Capitalism, Austin, Texas
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This week is my birthday!  If you know me, you know I LOVE my birthday.  I have lived a very blessed life with the most amazing people around me and to spend this time feting them is an honor. 

Because my birthday is in March, spring cleaning takes on a new meaning as it’s a time for physical cleaning and deep reflection. When cleaning a year ago at this time, I came across a file folder that would change the course of the next year.  This file folder was filled with thank you notes from people who had written to me when I was teaching leadership classes at Whole Foods Market.  I had recently taken a different job within the organization that didn’t require me to teach, so this folder was buried under a pile papers.
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I sat down and read a few of them when a feeling of complete dread came over me.  While I was working at a company that I loved, I wasn’t doing a job that I loved.   That evening, I shared this experience with a good friend.  She wisely asked, “If you had a job where a person would write you a thank you note, wouldn’t you do that job every day?”.

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Scarcity vs Abundance

3/29/2018

 
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For the past week and a half, I’ve taken a little detour from my usual schedule to invest in some training. I was recertified with Insights Discovery last week and I am attending The Leadership Circle certification this week. As a facilitator myself, now acting as a participant, I am reminded again how hard it is to sit and listen to anyone talk for hours. Even the very best facilitators start to sound like they are speaking gibberish after a while. On the flip side, my head is like a popcorn maker full of kernels that’s going to explode with popcorn, I mean knowledge, at any moment.

One of the topics popping around in my head is how we go about problem solving. Specifically, whether we look at problems from a place of scarcity – playing not to lose – or from a place of abundance – playing to win together. According to Gallup, 70% of work culture is created by leadership – their actions, behaviors and tendencies. In my career, I have worked with leaders who operate from a place of scarcity, as well as those who operate from a place of abundance. I almost always prefer abundance.


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What Would You Do With the Freedom to Fail?

3/28/2018

 
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Guest Post By: Jenna Powers
​Director, HR at Amazon 

What would you do if you knew you would fail?

You read that right. What would you do if you knew you would fail?

This past weekend was the 22nd running of the Barkley Marathons, a 100 mile race in northeastern Tennessee that likely first reached those outside the ultra running world with the documentaries Where Dreams Go to Die and The Race That Eats Its Young. I won’t detail all the race quirks in this post (you can read more about it here); the most important thing to know is that this race is hard. Far more difficult than a standard 100 mile race, of which there are dozens in the US and globally every year. In 22 years, the Barkley has been completed just 18 times. Given the number of entrants each year (a process which is tightly controlled; the race is extremely difficult to get into), that means there is a 2.5% finishing rate. That means some years there are no finishers.

2018 was one of those years.

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I call bullshit.

3/27/2018

 
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Author: Joshua Miller 
​New Book: ​I Call Bullshit: Live Your Life not Someone Else's

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Announcing Thinking People Consulting's first book club. 
​Date: Monday, April 30, 2018 from 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST
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I hope this note finds you well! Wait, I take that back. I hope this finds you more than well. I hope you’re living a life that’s both fulfilling and full of joy because you’ve shaped it by making choices in tune with who you truly are as your most authentic self. 

Is that not the case? Are you actually doing things the way you think you should be doing them rather than how you want to be doing them? Guess what? You’re not alone—the bulk of your team is feeling that same nagging feeling of there has to be more than this, and they want answers. 

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Who is your Wicket?

3/26/2018

 
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I know that not everyone is a dog lover. But for those who are, you know what I am talking about when I say that dogs just have a magical way of getting into your heart. This post is about a dog, recently named Wicket.
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It’s a long story of how Wicket came to join our family, but I’ll give you the short version. A few months ago, interested in adopting a Pug, I left my contact info with a local animal shelter. Last week, they finally called to tell me that a Pug, approximately 7 years old, had been brought in. The dog had a severe eye infection that would require his eyes to be removed, was extremely skinny and had a major skin infection. He needed surgery immediately and was thought to have been overbred and neglected. The surgery went well, and two days later, he was up for adoption. Sarah from the shelter reminded me that he is an older, special needs dog. I left work immediately to meet the dog at the shelter. 

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Design Thinking for Your Life

3/23/2018

 
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Guest Post By: Dorothy Mankey
​Founder, Coreisma Consulting


Recently I came upon a concept I can’t stop thinking about. I had participated in a design thinking workshop called “Designing Your Life” developed by Stanford professors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. Their goal was to teach participants how to use design thinking to create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do for a living, or how old we are.  


If you’re not familiar with design thinking, it is a process and a way of thinking about tough-to-solve problems. Design thinking draws upon empathy, logic, imagination, intuition and an iterative approach to explore possibilities of what could be — and to create desired outcomes that benefit the user. Design thinking requires you to leverage the following key elements:
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  • Curiosity
  • Bias to Action
  • Reframing
  • Awareness
  • Radical Collaboration ​

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Lemon Trees and Human Potential.

3/22/2018

 
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​Every Mother’s Day, my family asks for hints before they head out to shop for a gift. Last May, I let them know I wanted something a little different –  a lemon tree. Why a lemon tree? Well, for starters, I am a huge lemon fan. Lemon blueberry cake is a top request on my birthday, and when I am in the mood for a sweeter drink, a lemon drop is my first choice. Lemonade on a summer day is a slice of heaven. Then there is lemon juice squeezed over a salad or piece of fish – delicious. Just the smell of lemon trees makes me happy. So, it was settled –  I would ask for a lemon tree.

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Leadership Lessons from a Day in Kindergarten

3/21/2018

 
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Guest Post By: Michael Walters
Executive Vice President, HR
​Genoa Healthcare

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Recently I spent an afternoon volunteering in my son’s kindergarten class. By the end of it I found myself exhausted and covered in glitter—surprising because we weren’t doing arts and crafts. 

The teacher was masterful. She managed these different, little personalities who would become excited or frustrated at the drop of a hat. And she blended individual attention with entire class-wide instructions to make sure the lessons were progressing.

Quite a bit about what I’ve learned about leadership in a corporate environment I saw play out in micro-instances with these little people right before my eyes.

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Unknown impact of “weak links”

3/20/2018

 
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When I reflect on the impact of my network of friends and colleagues, I see an amazing tangle of connections that has led to outcomes no one could ever predict. Take my friend, Tony, for example. Tony and I met in junior high and attended high school and college together. I am not sure we saw each other as friends at the time, although we had overlapping friendships. It’s not that we didn’t like each other – we just never really knew each other.

Several years later, a post I made on Facebook motivated Tony to submit his resume for a job. Through our connection, he was invited for an interview and today, over seven years later, Tony is still with that same company. For the longest time, people who met Tony and I at work thought we were great, life-long friends. Although that wasn’t the case, it would be accurate to say that through the years, we became friends.

Amy is my neighbor and I reached out to her over eight years ago to build me a website. I then referred her to my friend Kathy, whose website she also built. Several years later, I hired Amy again for support with an internal website at a non-profit I worked for. And, most recently, I hired Amy to design and build my current website. Through the years, people have assumed because we are neighbors and have worked together several times that we are great friends. And, as with Tony, I would say that through working together, we have become friends.

The world is an interesting place when it comes to people we know – and don’t know – and kind of know.

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Millennials. The conversation that continues.

3/19/2018

 
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I have spent the last 10 years of my career interviewing, hiring, training, coaching and promoting millennials. I have spent just as long working with leadership teams, especially middle-managers and executives, on how to communicate with and support millennials. Yet, recently, the shift is turning – millennials are working their way into executive management positions. Yes, that is correct, millennials are at the tipping point where they are becoming the leaders.

Depending on sources, it’s said that millennials were born anywhere from around 1980 to the early 2000s. Some sources report the millennial span as 1976 – 2004. Doing the math, that means that some millennials are just tipping their 40s or late 30s – which aligns to enough experience to be entering the ranks of senior management. 

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