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How to Carry on with Business as Unusual & Avoid the Ick Factor
In the few minutes I allow myself to scroll through the news headlines each day, I came across a story about a pandemic poem that an English teacher posted to Twitter. The poem is entirely composed of opening lines to…
9 Books to Read in Times of Uncertainty
Between curfews and quarantines, you’ll probably have a lot more time on your hands than you’re used to. Rather than fritter that time away by stressing over the unknown or scrolling through ominous news headlines all day, why not take…
Concentration in Times of Crisis
5 tips to sustain focus and drive while working from home Businesswoman with a lot of work to do meditating in office If you don’t normally – or ever – work from home, the “shelter-in-place” mandate can pose a serious…
How We Can Do It Together in a Digital World
Group of people on peak mountain climbing helping team work , travel trekking success business concept The abundance of food, toilet paper, and other essentials that we take for granted has seemingly evaporated overnight. Our carefully laid plans for spring…
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…
The Dark Side of Curiosity for the Creative Mind (and How Wonder Can Help)
The other day I was onboarding a new client. Her client load is full, her team is growing, but she has ambitions to grow and expand her platform and ultimately scale her intellectual property. She has boundless ideas for new…
4 Threads of Deep Purpose
To inspire your work and enrich your life Closeup of hands making cat’s cradle People who feel a sense of purpose, according to recent studies, are more productive and happier in their work. According to a recent Deloitte survey, 90%…
3 Tips to Make the Most Out of Your Retreat
A colleague I recently had dinner with heads up leadership development at a major corporation while testing the waters with her own private consulting. She admitted that it had just dawned on her that there are only 168 hours in…
Wonder Interventions at Work
In his decades of research on the psychology of flow, Mihaly Cskiszentmihalyi has studied people who like to do things that they enjoy. He has studied athletes, artists, religious mystics, scientists, chess players, rock climbers, and ordinary working people. What…
Wondrous Insights from Quest2020
Hello Questers and Wonder Trackers! December has flown by and we find ourselves in the last week of Quest2020. For those of you who aren’t participating in our annual reflective journey called Quest, our community of change-makers from around the…
What kind of Wonder Tracker are you?
The holiday season is upon us. That means the New Year (and the resolutions that come with it) are right around the corner. While we make our resolutions with the best of intentions, too often December arrives and we find…
5 Ways to Rebrand with Integrity
Businesses can get off-track. They can make a bad marketing move, have a product backfire, lose customers, form clunky partnerships. If you’re a small business or personal brand, getting off-track might be similar yet on a smaller scale. You’ll feel…