Bridging the Generational Divide
A few years ago, the phrase “hey boomer” became a viral putdown from Gen Z and Millennials to their parents and older leaders trying to put life experience and wisdom forward as a solution to an existing challenge. The struggle between established and rising generations is as old as time. And, if you wait long […]
Influence and Flexibility – How do I maintain a relationship?
Imagine a line that represents the amount of influence we have over things in our life. The far-left end of the line is “no influence” and the far right is “total influence.” Relationships violate a simple rule when one or another party to that relationship assumes they can control the other party. […]
One Plus One Equals Two, Until it Doesn’t
It is easy to make assumptions. Sometimes we don’t realize that something we take as an absolute, other’s may not see that way. Afterall, One Plus One Equals Two, Until it Doesn’t.
A Tiny Slice of Connection
We found that 3 times as many stories are consumed each day about contention in the world and at home, than stories about people coming together, or connecting. Have you experienced more contention than connection in the last few years? Are we setting ourselves and our companies up for failure by not recognizing where we can come together? What can we do to begin focusing on connections?
Not All Challenges are Big Ones: Except to Someone
A recent article in the WSJ outlined a two decade pursuit of one of the significant challenges faced daily by parents of children with long hair. Too young or lacking in the regular habit of brushing their own hair the task often falls to a parent who, seeing the child on his or her way […]
Defending Tradition and Fighting for Change–Julia Child Against the World
I like to cook. I learned to cook by watching cooking shows on television. My earliest memories are of cooking shows on PBS–long before there was The Cooking Channel. I remember Graeme Kerr and Pierre Franey and Emeril Lagasse and Wolfgang Puck. And now I watch Giana and Bobby. In 2009 I was captivated by […]
Rain Brings Misery and Hope
In Rio de Janeiro, March is the rainiest month. It is a time when it rains so hard that roads become impassable, fields flood, hillsides slide, often destroying or damaging everything in their path. Life becomes difficult, even miserable for people. And for those people whose lives they built around rutted, dirt roads, living on […]
Hey Boomer meets the power of Collabs
A few years ago, the phrase “hey boomer” became a viral putdown from Gen Z and Millennials to their parents and older leaders trying to put life experience and wisdom forward as a solution to an existing challenge. The struggle between established and rising generations is as old as time. And, if you wait long […]
Same Path, Different Routes
There are many places in this world where you can really connect with nature–through hiking. Hiking, outside of a city or country where the road’s end and the sidewalks disappear, requires the walker to pick their own route. One of the easiest to find but not always easy to navigate are dry river, creek or […]
A Slot in an old Wooden Box
Fanny, from her childhood, loved to write poems. Poems were where she escaped from a world she found overwhelming and challenging, even in the best of times. Fanny was very shy. She was nearsighted and her family lacked resources to provide her with glasses. Uncomfortable around others, she would escape to her room and her […]