Oprah magazine has this column on the back page: “what I know for sure” from Oprah herself. I think we would each be well-served to write down at least once a week what we know for sure. I’ve been realizing lately that my entire career and life could be charted as “times I lived my [...]
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What do you know for sure?
Muhammad Ali: Career-Maker
My husband Kurt and I went to the world premiere of a documentary called Facing Ali , part of the Seattle International Film Festival, last Friday night. The film was remarkable on many levels. If you have a chance to see it (soon in New York and LA, perhaps to be rolled out in other cities [...]
Average Joe
Would it be okay if you were just average? Well, of course it wouldn’t, in terms of results! You’re ambitious, and in truth, being at the median means getting passed over for promotions or bonuses, it means being surpassed by competitors. So no, none of us are aiming for average outcomes. But here’s the surprising [...]
Time Will Prove You Wrong
From the introduction to Peter Senge’s new book, The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World: “One thing we have learned from working on organizational and systemic change is that the leaders are hard to identify in advance. Sometimes they are CEOs or presidents, but often they do [...]
Drinking much lately?
My friend Ella asked me the other day, “Have you noticed that we stop drinking water when we’re trying not to feel something?” Just now, she offered me a glass of water and I realized how thirsty I am. I’m preparing for an intense training day tomorrow and drinking and feeling sound like just the [...]
Where will you get more strength?
As I was walking to my yoga class this morning, I was thinking about a sales team we’re working with. I was starting to see that their very commitment to going for it - to rigor, to speed, to action – although they think of as their greatest strength, are the very things standing in [...]
Anxiety, Your Business Tool
It’s Wednesday afternoon and I’m working on a proposal for a client, my latest blog entry (curtsy to my reader: hello!), and an array of e-mails and phone calls and a cool new idea for moms who, like me, are approaching their first anniversary of motherhood. Sara, my business partner, is leaving for vacation Friday [...]
Receiving 101
Clients and workshop participants often balk, initially, at our invitation to open to their power of Receiving. It sounds like it's for weenies. It's confrontive to their sense of being a can-do person. We know we're competent by the things we make happen, not by the ways we ask for help or feel our deep [...]
When you don’t know what happens next…
Yesterday's skies opened up to blanket Seattle with six inches of powdery goodness. My neighbor Iskra Johnson initiated a spontaneous meeting of the Broadview Babes, as she calls a handful of the women on our block to frolic in the snow. We tromped through the swirling flakes and made our way to Diva, our local [...]
Welcome to Sara and Michele’s Blog
Hey there! This is the first post in Working with Power's blog. Our business primarly serves corporate leaders and the HR professionals who help develop those leaders and their teams. What we'll do here on the blog is maintain a running commentary on current events in the world, our clients' lives, and our own lives, through [...]