You might think that applying more pressure gets more done. But relaxing and slowing down makes things run faster and more smoothly. Every morning can turn into a battle with my daughter as I’m trying to get her out the door to go to school. What I realized recently was that applying more pressure made…
Month: November 2025
How does your team stay focused on what’s most important when you’re not in the room?
How does your team stay focused on what’s most important when you’re not in the room? The nightmare scenario: A team spends weeks or months developing a new idea before presenting it to you for review. You send it back to start over because it’s completely misaligned with the vision and the strategy. — They…
Working harder will not turn you into an effective executive.
Working harder will not turn you into an effective executive. But most people keep trying, and then wonder why they’re not making progress. You earned success by outworking everyone, saying yes to everything asked of you, and solving every problem yourself. But that strategy also meant that people kept giving you more work. If you…
Confidence doesn’t come from knowing you’ll get it right.
Confidence doesn’t come from knowing you’ll get it right. It comes from trusting that you’ll figure it out when things go wrong. When you’ve made mistakes and recovered, you stop fearing failure. You start taking calculated risks, because you know you can recover. But if you’re so afraid of things going wrong that you never…
Purple Circle and Davis Nguyen have built a great resource in the Career Coaching Secrets podcast, interviewing different coaches to learn what has worked for them, and where they are still looking to improve
Purple Circle and Davis Nguyen have built a great resource in the Career Coaching Secrets podcast, interviewing different coaches to learn what has worked for them, and where they are still looking to improve. Check out my appearance below!
While I welcome new coaches (humanity needs more people who serve with presence), Jerry Colonna shares a wonderful reflection that coaching is about something more than making money – it’s a calling, a vocation, a way of being.
While I welcome new coaches (humanity needs more people who serve with presence), Jerry Colonna shares a wonderful reflection that coaching is about something more than making money – it’s a calling, a vocation, a way of being. There are many people who call themselves coaches who never explore their own presence, nor seek to…
I had a great conversation with Alyssa Nolte about taking control of your job by learning to say no to the tasks that are draining you.
I had a great conversation with Alyssa Nolte about taking control of your job by learning to say no to the tasks that are draining you. Your manager and coworkers will always ask you to do more and take on more, and it’s your responsibility to shape your job by saying yes to the energizing…
Your “intuition” is just your past. If you want to create a different future, you have to get uncomfortable and go somewhere unfamiliar.
Your “intuition” is just your past. If you want to create a different future, you have to get uncomfortable and go somewhere unfamiliar. “Intuition” is really just your nervous system getting trained on a pattern until it no longer feels surprising – it just feels right. When I sang in the San Francisco Symphony Chorus,…
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a guide to making difficult decisions?
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a guide to making difficult decisions? Especially if that guide was based on what worked for you, specifically? Robert Glazer’s book, The Compass Within, helps you create such a guide through a values discovery exercise (the subtitle is “A Little Story About the Values That Guide Us”). The…
Your industry is your destiny. Your CEO is your culture.
Your industry is your destiny. Your CEO is your culture. These were two gems of wisdom I learned from Patrick Pichette, CFO of Google at the time, in a fireside chat when he was asked for career advice. The industry you’re in sets your operating model and your opportunities. He had felt that acutely coming…