What does it mean that for forty years you’ve been a steadfast and true fan of a team? The Red Sox, perhaps, or even the Montreal Expos. Over time, every player has changed. Every coach. Perhaps the logo, the stadium, the city and even the name. So, what, exactly, are you a fan of? The […]
Today, April first, was the day for a particular greeting, the only one except New Year’s that’s simply based on the date. Happy. It was a day that people on the internet understood that it’s possible to act as if and to do it with a smile. To pretend that we’re not on the brink
It doesn’t really pay to classify multitudes by their age–every generation is complex and intermingles with all the others. But it might be a useful way to understand the issues we’ve faced and where we might be heading. Generation C was inaugurated with the events created by Covid-19, and it is defined by a new
As we’ve seen through these challenging times, the real skills matter. The ability to hold it all together, to lead, to bring insight and care to interactions. Too often, we’re pushed to only focus on the easily measured, but each of us knows that the human elements are critical. We’re relaunching the Real Skills Conference.
The way we feel can be triggered by outside events. And that can change how we act. And the way we act can reinforce how we feel. Of course, the opposite is true as well, and far more in our active control. How we act always changes how we feel. This is a perfect moment
When the stock market is on an upward tear, day trading becomes popular. You sit in your basement, surrounded by terminals and tickers, searching for the latest bits of information, hoping to make a profit buying and selling based on what’s happening in this very instant. It’s pretty tempting to day trade your emotions. We’ve
A short manifesto about the future of online interaction [Feel free to share.] The world is changing. Faster and more suddenly than most of us expected. And beyond the fraught health emergencies that so many are going through, many of us are being asked to quickly move our meetings and our classes online. Fortunately, there
There’s safety in numbers. (Virtual, digital connection). Resilience, too. Not to mention inspiration and mutual support. Go start a group. Find the others. Learn together. Meet regularly. If you start the group, you won’t get left out… At Akimbo, we’ve seen the power of what happens when people connect and work together online. Today,
That’s pretty much all that’s on offer. What will you do next? The first gives us visceral satisfaction and emotional release, and it almost always leads to bad outcomes. Responding is smarter. It requires each of us to think hard about the action and emotion we seek to create after something is put on our
“This is worthy and important and right so I should do it…” sounds like what we say just before we do something. It rarely is. There are an endless number of worthy shoulds in our lives. But these shoulds rarely cause action. We’re moved out of our status-quo stasis by the tension of being left
