We’re seated in a circle, amid concrete floors and a large gallery space which tends to echo sound. A diverse collection of local art hangs noiselessly on the walls. Sculptures perch silently on pedestals. The only sound carrying past our …
[Guest blogger Nina Peterson is the COO and a partner at Wisdom Works. She last blogged about how optimism can engineer the future.]
It’s August: that time of year when many organizations are reforecasting. They are rethinking the year’s …
It was our seventh one-to-one coaching conversation. We’d been meeting twice a month for a while now, roughly two hours each time. This executive (an early-40s high achiever I’ll call James) seemed acutely alert to the warning signs about the …
Whenever I was sick as a kid, my step-father would buy me a comic book to cheer me up. Usually, it was an Archie Comic; my favorite character (which I kept as a closely-guarded secret) was the kind-hearted, tomboyish Betty …
It felt like the kind of heat that curls paint from the walls. It was the heat wave of 2010 and there I was among 80 leaders in the Adirondack Mountains. While the mountains sound like a nice cool summer …
[Guest blogger Nina Peterson is COO and Partner at Wisdom Works. Her last blog addressed how leaders engineer optimism.]
My daughter graduated from college in May and she is struggling to apply what she learned. It reminds me …
[Guest blogger Sheldon Romer is a Wisdom Works Performance Coach and the one-time founder and CEO of Rudi’s Organic Bakery.]
In the 1980s an antiperspirant company coined the catchy tagline “Never let them see you sweat.” …
Last week, Gallup advertised a leadership and organizational development program that I’d imagined coming from Wisdom Works. I felt deflated. Instead of igniting my inner fires of competition or a spirit of collaboration with like-minded colleagues, this news took the …
A hodge-podge of friends at my favorite local coffee shop seemed to light up to the topic of the day’s conversation: wealth and poverty. From a real estate investor and retired corporate professionals to a musician and a yoga instructor, …
You’ve seen that anxious businessperson waiting for the elevator, eager to get home after a long day at work. He or she presses the button over and over again as if it will speed up the doors. Perhaps that person …
