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Millennial Madness: Is a Millennial workforce the secret to your labour shortage or just common sense?

I find it interesting that people always seem to be looking for some secret answer – that ever elusive bit of information, research, new theory or latest model that is going to help them solve all of their problems. Yet in my experience, when you look more deeply at these “groundbreaking” research and models, it isn’t telling us anything we don’t already know – or at least anything we...

Stressed in the City Part 2 – Closing Your Integrity Gaps

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In my last post I revealed the secret of leveraging your strengths to enhance your energy and immunize yourself against stress. To continue, I am introducing another key stress reduction strategy – closing your Integrity Gaps.
What exactly is an Integrity Gap? Integrity Gaps exist whenever our actions are not in alignment with our most deeply held values, principles and beliefs. Ever had that tight feeling...

Workplace 3.0: The future wave of workplace innovation

While I love the ease of information access that the internet provides for building our business, developing training programs, researching resources for coaching clients, and getting my regular personal and professional growth fixes without having to leave the comfort of my own home, I am definitely someone who uses the internet (and most technology for that matter) on a “need to” basis only. I can pretty much always find...

Love and the Retail Environment

Work is love made visible. And if you can’t work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy. Khalil Gibran What does it really take to motivate people to bring joy, along with their best effort, to work in a retail environment? Keep the...

Stressed in the City Part 1 – Leverage Your Strengths

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Many stress experts tout things such as exercise, meditation, journaling, and walking in nature as solutions for managing stress. These are great in theory – and even in practice – but what if you just can’t find the time to fit anything more in? How can you optimize what you are already doing to increase energy, reduce stress, and avoid adding one more thing into your...

Lessons from Silicon Valley

This New Year’s my fiancé and I traveled to the heart of Silicon Valley, to meet my new nephew. While for me the baby was the star attraction, my fiancé was equally enthralled with the wheeling and dealing of my brother-in-law, a senior lawyer in a law firm that has assisted such tech heavy-hitters as Google and Sun Microsystems with their IPOs and acquistions. And so between baby coddling...

Ikigai and Aging Well

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Japan, along with many other countries in the developed world, is experiencing a marked increase in the percentage of its population that is over fifty. With this changing demographic comes and increased interest regarding what it takes to not only live longer but to live better. One of the most comprehensive research projects in this area was led by Dan Buettner and his group, Blue Zones,...

Being Jouzu – Leveraging Your Talents for Success

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Any foreigner living in Japan quickly discovers the word jouzu, a Japanese word that means skillful or talented. When uttering any relatively coherent Japanese phrase, kind Japanese listeners eager to encourage your linguistic brilliance often exclaim “Anata no nihongo wa jouzu desu!” Like me, many of you might bask in this fantasy of fluency for a few seconds before quickly exclaiming, “iie, jouzu ja nai!” as...

Creative Living

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Many people long for more from their lives. They read books and attend seminars trying to find that one resource or piece of information that will unlock their potential and free them from fear and confusion – the missing ingredient that will help them to discover their path to fulfillment. Ironically, it is this very confusion that contains the seed of their transformation.
In 18 years...