Mindful Leaders know practicing gratitude is always in season, and the science backs this up, because the benefits and impact are both immediately evident and continue to ripple long after the grateful gesture....
Change is always here. Change can carry us along or sweep us away when we are unaware, or, if we notice, if we pay attention enough, we’ll experience change as neither good nor bad but simply the nature of things. Leaders make change happen, in large and small ways, and change happens to them....
Change is inevitable and always unprecedented. What looks the same at the global, organizational, or personal level cannot be the same simply because there are no repeats in life. Nothing is static. Systems change changing people, and people make decisions that influence systems....
When something ends or changes, like a reorganization or the departure of team members, it best to see it as an external reality, something everyone agrees happened. A transition, on the other hand, is what occurs in the minds of individuals, groups, and teams as they grapple with loss and the lack of clarity around what comes next....
Change can bring both excitement and tension, and a combination of the two. Our job as leaders is to make the necessary adjustments to keep our team members focused on the critical tasks at hand....