I have had the joy and privilege of mentoring young people in the business world, both formally and informally, for quite some time. My husband has also mentored young people in various capacities. I have to say I am hopeful for the future. When we talk about “passing the baton,” another good piece of wisdom is the importance of being mentored as well as mentoring others. While this article is mostly about mentoring others, my hope is that we all have somebody who mentors us,
Stephen Covey’s Quadrant Thinking has become my go to framework for time management. I’ve referenced it often in seminars, adapting its principles to suit different contexts. One example is my September 2023 article, Covid Fog, Crisis Fatigue and Other Blahness in which some of these principles were addressed. Though Covey’s principles date back several decades, the core concept—understanding and managing the urgent versus the important—remains profoundly relevant. In a worl
A common error we sometimes fall victim to is shortcutting our understanding of complex ideas. I have heard Edward De Bono’s rich parallel thinking strategy reduced to labelling that can border on insults rather than its intended use. Edward De Bono sees that parallel thinking can avoid unnecessary arguments when it is understood that individuals may be seeing different aspects or facets of a scenario which results in a different view being expressed, rather than one part bei
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here to stay; it is too late to wind back the clock. It is a waste of time and energies talking about how bad it is but do put your energies into putting in some constructive guardrails. Every entity, no matter how small, should have an AI Policy. Start off small with a one pager (or commensurate with the size of your entity and your other policies). You will need to decide beforehand how much AI use you will allow in your entity, but good luc
