By Laura Crandall, founder of A Life of Character A question for white business leaders learning to change the system. 2020 is not messing around. It’s taking the dominant global paradigm and shaking it to its core. From wildfires raging across an entire continent and super typhoons threatening densely populated countries to COVID-19 claiming …
By Lee Ruggles He exemplified for me the midway tier of his Hierarchy: love and belonging. There’s an unfamiliar face at the small gathering. “Lee, this is Annie Maslow.” I ask Annie if there’s a connection with Dr. Abraham Maslow. There is. He was related to her husband, up there on his family tree, a …
By Jaime Hollander The importance of apology was one of the greatest lessons I’ve learned. It’s also a powerful business tool. I’m still not entirely sure what did or didn’t happen. I was relatively new to the workforce and managing projects that, 15 years later, would give me anxiety. Then the high stakes and full-on …
By Toufic Hakim, PhD What we can do and learn when we’re in a state of discord and crisis? We’ve all heard the quote by Martin Luther King Jr. suggesting that how we respond to adversity is a manifestation of our true character. In today’s reality, this notion could not be more pertinent. “Our ultimate …
She’s sick of the “side hustle” and with good cause… “Of the many popular terms to which I am viscerally allergic, ‘side hustle’ might be the one that makes me twitch the most,” writes A Life of Character founder Laura Crandall. “While I’m all for shirking convention and flipping a metaphorical bird to the status …
By Jaime Hollander How to find focus to be more productive When I was young I couldn’t just have an interest. It needed to be a bright, burning, all-consuming passion. My grandmother gifted me a few old porcelain figures and, for a period of time, my passion became finding and acquiring more admittedly hideous porcelain …
By Kate Lingren It all comes down to our internal struggles and listening to both sides of the conflict. You want to quit your job – but maybe you don’t. On the one hand, your boss makes you want to run screaming out of the building. Between the micromanaging and the unpredictability, getting through …
By Nancy Hauswald How being a flâneur can give you the energy to do more “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found a companion that was so companionable …
We all worry about what others think…but that can be problematic. What’s that you say? You’re never worried about other people’s opinions? You never wonder what your colleague or neighbor or friend thinks about you? Right… Maybe you’re a bit thicker-skinned than the norm but it’s unlikely you never worry about what other people …
Steps that can help you make the most of what you hear No one likes to hear that they are performing poorly. Being either praised or left alone is generally preferred over having someone describe our faults. While receiving critical or negative feedback can be a challenge and can sometimes know the wind out of …