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Post-Traumatic Growth—8 Personal Practices for Navigating Crisis
Most of you have probably heard of PTSD or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, but you may not have heard of Post-Traumatic Growth. Many people who experience a traumatic event will end up with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression that can be disabling....
10 Best Practices for Hiring (and Keeping) a Top Team
Ever since I became a manager 14 years ago, I’ve been curious about best practices for hiring. I’ve been part of organizations that struggled to keep vacancy rates of over half their employees—and teams that have hardly any turnover. I’ve been interested in questions...
Feel the Fear, Then Do It Anyway
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.” –Henry Ford In 1987 psychologist Susan Jeffers wrote her bestselling book Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, which sold millions of copies. Many successful entrepreneurs and business leaders rank this book...
Organizations With a Structured Onboarding Process May Retain 50% More New Hires
Right after graduate school I began working at a maximum security prison. The pay was good, the work was exciting, and they offered student loan forgiveness programs. I was assigned a work mentor who would help with my onboarding process. The first stop was the armory...
Perfectionism—The Secret Thief of Dreams
Most of you have probably never heard of Lord Acton, but I bet you have heard the phrase, “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” attributed to him. John Dalberg-Acton—or Lord Acton—was a 19th century historian. His story is really quite tragic, and...
The 80-20 Rule
“If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.” —Tim Ferriss The BIG Idea—A minority of your actions create the majority of your results. Wilfreid Fritz Pareto (aka Vilfredo Pareto) was an unusual Italian engineer, sociologist, economist, and political...
Find Yourself By Getting Lost
Last week I checked off a bucket list trip by backpacking the Lost Coast—with two friends I’ve known for more than 20 years. After living in California my entire life, this was yet another amazing area of California I’d never explored. If you are not familiar with the...
