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 …
Last year, I committed to myself that when springtime came, I would step up my social responsibility at home. Among other things, this meant buying a composting bin: one of those contraptions to turn last nights’ leftovers into fertile nourishment …
[Guest blogger Nina Peterson is COO and Partner at Wisdom Works.]
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
— Susan J. Bissonette
Many people wait for the first signs of spring to shift into their sunnier seasonal …
Mind blowing red-rock formations arch skyward to my right. Low clouds and fog lend the scenery a mystical appearance. Sweat drips off my chin, bouncing from handlebars to shimmering blacktop. My parched throat punctures the splendor of my surroundings; my …
