“How do you turn a battleship? You turn a battleship by making a directional commitment and staying the course, not wavering from it“- Dr. Tachi Yamada
In a recent interview on NYT’s Corner Office series, Dr.
One of the challenges some leaders face during career and entrepreneurial transitions, is the fact that they will have to start all over again and lose their expert status. The fallacy of expert status goes hand in hand with a limited view of the possibilities in front of you as well avoiding action completely. Adopting a beginner’s mindset when you are in transition, introduces many possibilities that can help you think through dilemmas; such as how to repackage your wealth of experience, skills and unique perspective or invest your energy doing something worthwhile that you truly enjoy.
During... [Read more]
Opening quote from Grey’s Anatomy: “The surgical scalpel is made of steel, sterilized, carbonized stainless steel. This is a vast improvement over the first scalpel, which was pretty much a sharp stick. Medicine is constantly reinventing itself. That means surgeons have to keep reinventing themselves, too. There is constant pressure to adapt to changes. It can be a painful process.... [Read more]
At the Most Powerful Women Summit, when asked how she would tag herself, Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox, responded the “Groomed CEO”. With roughly 28 years of experience... [Read more]
One of the dilemmas some of my clients and readers face is letting go and moving forward. Whether it is a project that went awry, a negative performance review, the experience of working with a mismatched... [Read more]
