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Beginner’s Mind in the New World of Work
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Beginner’s Mind in the New World of Work

“Yikes. I have no idea what I’m doing.” That’s often the first thought when we embark on something new — whether it’s a location, place of employment, or skill. The anxiety of unknown challenges and experiences often impedes our career success. This anxiety often leads to avoiding the situation altogether and to behavioral inertia that…

Wonder: Your Mental Skill for Surprising Innovation
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Wonder: Your Mental Skill for Surprising Innovation

Every day our brains process billions of data points, from the temperature of the room to the tone of someone’s voice. To make our lives easier – and avoid complete information overload – our brains find patterns in the chaos and establish routines or habits in order to make room in our busy brains. We…

10 Tips to Shape an Excellent, Authentic Life
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10 Tips to Shape an Excellent, Authentic Life

In his foreword for Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude, best-selling author and business advisor Jim Collins writes, “If leadership begins not with what you do but who you are, then when and how do you escape the noise [of our times] to find your purpose and summon the strength to pursue it?” In…

Unlocking Impactful Creative Ideas Through Radical Openness
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Unlocking Impactful Creative Ideas Through Radical Openness

The act of making an idea into an impactful endeavor lights up every “cylinder” in us.  As psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (who coined the term “flow”) said in his 2008 TED talk, “When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.” You seek this sense…

Elevate & Highlight: Best in Brand Trends & Marketing Messages for September 2018
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Elevate & Highlight: Best in Brand Trends & Marketing Messages for September 2018

CELEBRATING BUSINESS-AS-UNUSUAL Have you heard of “fast fashion?” Research that has been conducted by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation has indicated that global clothing production has doubled in the last 15 years, predominantly as a result of what is known as  “fast fashion”. Fast Fashion is on-trend, cheap-to-produce clothing mimicking  luxury and high-end products – and…

Love Shows Up In Your Best Work: the Tracking WonderPod Club
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Love Shows Up In Your Best Work: the Tracking WonderPod Club

  How do we balance the quest for our best work with the desire to nurture our long-term, loving relationships? With Season Two’s launch only a short way ahead of us- coming October 9 – we want to invite you to sit with some of the questions raised by Episode 10 of the first season…

Invite Your Young Genius to the Tracking WonderPod Club
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Invite Your Young Genius to the Tracking WonderPod Club

You are seven years old… Who would think that such an invitation of five words could make a difference in how you experience your work, solve creative problems, or otherwise feel fulfilled and on-purpose? Those five words could profoundly shift your creativity. Yet that’s the invitation Tracking Wonder’s founder Jeffrey Davis extended to the listeners…