Category: musings
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Welcome to Issue 2: Toxic Culture Dynamics
Leading by Design Issue No. 2 Can Middle Management fix Workplace Toxic Cultures? Hey Reader, Culture plays a critical role in nurturing a healthy environment for employees in our workplaces. Culture can be defined as the beliefs, behaviors, and interactions between individuals and teams. As leaders, communicating in ways that uphold a healthy culture have…
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Do you ever feel lonely?
Leading by Design Issue No. 1 Reconnecting to Your Purpose Hey Reader, Articulating your purpose is a way to both reconnect and engage, and also to spark a positive psychological energy that creates drive. If you are like me, it’s been more difficult this past year to stay attune to and connected to a feeling…
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The Tipping Point of Burnout vs. Self Care
How we all function as our best selves ebbs and flows situationally and in context of internal and external stressors. The Yerkes-Dodson law examines the relationship between stress stimuli and performance, with performance increasing to a peak with the “right” amount of stress, then declining into burnout
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Knowing When You Are Incompetent
We can be simultaneously unconsciously incompetent in one area of our lives, and consciously competent in another.