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When faced with challenge, most of us instinctively search for patterns. How did this happen? Where have I seen this before? Our brains are wired to connect new experiences to old ones. For thousands...
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A CEO once told me the most important part of leadership wasn’t what happened in the boardroom. It was the meeting before the meeting—the one you have with yourself. Before stepping into the...
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The 21st-century workplace didn’t emerge in isolation — it’s the latest step in a long redesign of how humans live and think. From forager to farmer, farmer to factory worker, factory to...
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At The HuPerson Project, Haute Couture gives us a living language for how transformation feels and functions. Couture begins with presence. A client arrives, and the designer listens: Who is this...
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In many organizations, customization signals care. Think ready-to-wear with thoughtful alterations—shorten the sleeve, taper the leg, add a feature. The pattern stays intact, the palette is known,...
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For decades, business leaders have approached transformation through targeted initiatives. Diversity and inclusion. Innovation. Leadership development. Each addresses a part of the system—and in...
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In moments of crisis or when facing a complex decision, it is easy for organizations to leap straight into strategy. The question becomes, What should we do? How do we fix this? Yet, when strategy...
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Siloed functioning in an organization is nothing new, often expressed as competing tribes within departments, disjointed initiatives, and fragmented communication. Movement towards the mission can...
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In a stable environment, laying down a road makes sense. You chart the path. You build. You follow it. And it holds—for years, sometimes decades. In a desert, that same road can disappear in a...
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What if being in business wasn’t separate from honoring what is sacred? What if the work we do each day—where we invest most of our time—was directly connected to caring for life itself? The...
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In the heat of disruption—rising inflation, shifting markets, cascading wildfires—it’s tempting to rush. To react. To solve. Leaders are often taught that decisive action is strength. There is...
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Consider the way a light piece of wood floats no matter how chaotic the waves are. Just like that light chunk of wood, we can develop skillfulness with surfing the waves of life. With practice, the...
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Leaders today face an unending swirl of economic uncertainty, supply-chain disruption and shifting market dynamics. Every corner of expertise brings well-argued advice—and often it feels impossible...
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“It’s the reframe that does the reset that opens a new territory, a new space, a new direction for you to walk in.” Disruptions arrive as market crashes, pandemics, supply‑chain shocks,...
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Business meets a pivotal moment. Economic shifts, ecological strains, and social turbulence all signal a wider transformation—one that asks leaders to orient beyond quarterly targets and into...
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Smartphones ping, AI agents reply in seconds, and leadership folklore echoes “speed conquers all.” That mindset shapes reflexes across boardrooms—until the next decision arrives half‑baked...
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Leadership today is not just about managing what we know—it’s about navigating the unknown, grounded in awareness and a deep sense of relationality. As the world becomes increasingly complex and...
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For business leaders seeking sustainable success, understanding and embodying your life mission isn’t just a philosophical pursuit—it’s a daily practice that informs every decision, every...
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Your life mission isn’t about checking boxes like “What am I good at?” “What can I get paid for?” “What does the world need?” and “What do I love?”...
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Effective leadership has never been more vital. The world is in trouble right now. Many of us feel we have used up the value of inherited business practices from a traditional business culture. A...
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As we explored, in our insight about Intention, a meaningful intention helps ignite us and manifest the goals we most want for our business and life. So, how do we get there? Something that isn’t...
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Goals and checklists fill our lives, like motors keeping us moving forward. Where would we be without them? Disorganized, unfocused, losing momentum. In the architecture of manifesting what we most...
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Shaping a team culture around destiny conversations anchors a sense of meaning that many are looking for. When you know why you are here, what you are here to do and who you are here to become, in an...
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Destiny can seem like a big concept, and we might wonder how it connects to the reality of day-to-day business operations. It’s helpful to look at destiny not only as an end result. It can also be...
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The business mindset has traditionally established timeframes to monitor progress, such as quarterly reports and stock prices. And yet, we are in a time where our understanding of the world is being...
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In our fast-paced world, a number of movements support “slowing down” – from slow food and slow journalism to slow business. While these approaches are meant to help us take a break or...
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With so much information coming at us, are we distinguishing the signals we need to help us navigate our world? In the 2005 HBR article, Scanning the Periphery, the authors suggest that we can...
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Contradictory pressures, from the economy, the board, the employees exert themselves on every CEO. These pressures can seem to pull in opposite directions at times and it can be difficult to find the...
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In the business world we are living in, it can seem like there is never enough time. We are 24/7 connected, spinning plates in multiple contexts. As a CEO, pressures from the Board, supply chain,...
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In CEO Excellence, the authors Dewar, Keller and Malhorta, who are senior partners at McKinsey & Company, tackle a complicated mandate in a thorough way. We’d like to discuss some aspects of...
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We’d like to talk a little about the striking title we’ve chosen for our approach to doing business differently. Let’s start with “person.” Initially, the word meant to “sing through,”...
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In our first insight piece, we featured the elusive nightingale, a rare creature of beauty, being pursued by the king’s courtiers. Unfortunately, the courtiers had no idea what the nightingale...
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What methods will make a difference? How will you get to know the potential of your business more fully? And how will that knowing help the planet? Our world is not well, and this is becoming an...
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Happy Holidays! Our holiday month of December includes lots of ways to celebrate and to reflect on the ways we participate in the winter season. Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, in the Jewish...
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Freedom and business may seem like the odd couple. And yet, paradoxically, it is being free from old habits of mind and free from “business as usual” that will give leaders a new vantage point...
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It can be hard to hear the call of the future amidst the din of fads and outmoded business practices. The future is often like the elusive nightingale. According to the folk tale, a Chinese emperor...