A Roadmap to Authentic Leadership
Tools, resources, and insights to inspire growth
Focus – Use it or Lose it?
Devices. Our beloved Devices. The siren call of an arriving text or email captures our attention even when we know we should be concentrating on the task at hand. We sneak a peek at dangerous or inopportune times, whilst driving, for example, or reading to our...
How to Have a Career and Have a Life
I’m expected to perform at ever-higher levels at work. My spouse is on my case because I’m rarely home, and when I am, I’m not really present. We’re shuffling the kids from one activity to another, meals are taken on the run, and I can’t remember the last time I had...
The Brain That Heals Itself
When most of us think about mental health, we ascribe its presence or absence largely to luck or having good genes. We vaguely (or actively) dread the onset of dementia or Alzheimer’s and cross our fingers it doesn’t happen to us. Well, there is a whole lot of good...
The Importance of “Deep Work”
We recently shared a blog on Todd Henry's terrific book Die Empty. We love this book because it encourages each of us to make a contribution, the unique contribution that only we can make. Henry describes what he calls the Siren Song of Mediocrity as "a compromise...
Die Empty
“I know that my contribution is defined by how I choose to engage the battles I face every day, and that my legacy is nothing but a series of choices to engage in or abstain from action.” Todd Henry The title grabbed my attention and the subtitle clinched the sale:...
Authenticity – It’s Vital to Your Health
It's right in the name of our company. At Authentic Impact, we have long recognized how important it is to be authentic at work, at home, in our relationships, and with ourselves. This article The Surprising Ways Inauthenticity at Work is Hurting You, by Molly...
The bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral.
We all know someone like that. They may be friends, co-workers or family members. Always needing to be the center of attention, life revolves around them. There isn't enough oxygen in the room for them and anyone else. They're narcissists. Narcissists share a...
The Marshmallow Test
When you think about yourself today and sometime in the future, which of the circle pairs below best depicts how you see yourself? Second question - how are those New Year's resolutions going? I ask because a Walter Mischel, of The Marshmallow Test: Mastering...
Overcoming Overeating
“I eat all the time,” she said with a nervous giggle. “I eat when I’m hungry, I eat when I’m not hungry. I eat to celebrate, I eat when I’m sad. I eat at night. I eat when my husband comes home.” Sarah’s story, as described in “The end of overeating: Taking Control...
Orchids & Dandelions
The Swedes have long had a name for children who bloom where they’re planted – whether in well-tended garden or a sidewalk crack – “dandelion children”. Thomas Boyd, a University of Arizona developmental psychologist and Bruce Ellis, a developmental pediatrician from...
Heroic Leadership
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." Dwight D. Eisenhower And just how, exactly, does one do that? It’s the $64,000 question, isn’t it? Chris Lowney, a Jesuit seminarian turned investment banker with...
Know Thyself (and Thy Team!)
"O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!" -Songs and Poems by Robert Burns Or, roughly translated for the non-Scots among us: Oh would some power the gift give us, To see ourselves as others see us. In other word: Know thyself. It’s the...
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