Get Your Lipstick On
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Here's why I'm sending you a a rebellious New Year’s kiss to you — and wishing you joy in wearing lipstick that lights up your soul and helps you bring your voice to the world
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More conversations, please
/I'm reclaiming conversations because relationships turn into transactions and we lose our capacity for learning, friendship, love, and empathy without them. Here's what MIT's Sherry Turkle has to say about why we need to stop hiding behindtexts, Tweets, emails, and other person-behind-the-screen communications.
Read MoreCourage is developed
/Courage helps us challenge what no longer works, fight for better ways, achieve more than we thought possible and overcome all the stress and unexpected land mines that are thrown in our paths. How do you become more courageous? By using these four strengths.
Read MoreGood Questions
/Good questions help us see what we should do next. What do you need? opens up helpful conversations with others and ourself.
The Sting of a Rebel Win
/One of the most popular questions Carmen Medina and I get asked during our Rebels at Work talks is, “What happens when your boss takes your idea and doesn’t give you credit for it?”
Read MoreRebel for the soul of government
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“Please don’t tell rebels like me to abandon organizations that clearly need them." A government rebel's advice on conflict, duty, and rediscovering the collective soul within.
Read MoreGrowth tips
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It's June 1 and the city garden behind my Providence, RI, office is bursting with new growth. What's fascinating about plants -- and organizations -- is that so much unexpected and counter-intuitive growth happens at the tips and edges of organisms.
New cellular structures -- and ways of working -- often happen by chance, emerging unexpectedly in the least likely places.
Read MoreThe power of being heard
/Why do I care so much about helping people speak up and be heard?
It didn’t start on this day, but all these years later this incident feeds my determination to help people speak truth to power
Read MoreWhose responsibility is Debbie's mother?
/Debbie’s mother is trying to find Debbie. But Debbie’s mother is lost inside the nursing home. There is no one to hear her or help her, except for me, the wrong number.
In my work with big companies I often feel that people are lost, calling those in positions of responsibility with ideas, cautions, and worries, and getting no response. They feel like Debbie’s mother.
Read MoreBuild the change muscles
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Five years ago when people asked me how change happens in big organizations I couldn’t wait to share ideas on positioning, navigating organizational politics and conflict.
Now my advice is different.
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