Productivity is Up in COVID??? I don’t believe it. I have a hunch that busyness is up, masking as productivity, and that effectiveness, getting the right […]
Value Creation If you are reading this post you likely lead a professional services team or a team of knowledge workers. For your organization, value creation […]
Previously Unplugged The National Day of Unplugging is this Friday, March 5, 6pm – Saturday, March 6, 6pm, twenty four hours, screen and TV free. Despite […]
Unplugged in Childhood In my childhood, being unplugged just meant not watching TV. Neither cell phones nor smartphones were present. This was in the 70’s and […]
A Canadian National Day of Unplugging The countdown to the first Canadian Day of Unplugging is upon us. Twenty-two days from today, corporate and non-profit teams […]
A Love of Busy I spent most of my career thinking that I was thriving on busyness. As a management consultant, busyness via multi-tasking was rewarded. […]
We invite you and your entire organization to join the Canadian National Day of Unplugging, March 5-6, 2021. Unplug for 24 hours from 6pm EST Friday […]
Let’s Unplug There is a growing movement to support each other in taking a technology break. Why? 79% of people admit technology distracts them from connecting […]
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker, management guru In November, I posted an article about why you can […]
A recent article in The New Yorker Magazine reveals new ideas on how to improve knowledge worker productivity. I agree that a more organization-driven approach is […]
“CoronaVirus ended the screen time debate. Screens won,” Nellie Bowles, New York Times. In Lockdown Again It is the end of November 2020 and many of […]
Attention Leaders If you lead a team or an organization, please pay attention to the film, The Social Dilemma (on Netflix). Why? People you work with […]
Connecting during COVID We are all experiencing more virtual meetings than ever before. If we weren’t aware of too much screen time before COVID, we are […]
In the previous November 2020 insights, you read about why focus and attention are important in the 21st century and about the link between focus and […]
Most of us have Difficulty Focusing Do you feel reactive and distracted? Does everything seem like it is top priority? Do you have the nagging feeling […]
We live in a world of overwhelm, digital and otherwise. In this pandemic, we are all facing fatigue, bad news bombardment, and lockdown lows. There is […]
The Conscious Organizations virtual conference, October 28-30, 2020, hosts 17 global thought leaders with ideas and methods for creating a conscious organization. I am honored and […]
What is Horasis? Horasis is a global visions community dedicated to inspiring our future. Pre-covid, events designed to foster cross sector and cross country dialogue were […]
Leading with Attention In August 2020 I had the opportunity to deliver an interactive virtual workshop for Dr. Anita Nowak’s Leadership class at McGill University in […]
Virtual Meeting Overwhelm We are all experiencing more virtual meetings than ever before. If we weren’t aware of too much screen time before COVID, we are […]
In July 2018, I had the privilege of facilitating a diverse stakeholder group in Dublin. The Disability Federation of Ireland (DFI) hosted the workshop. DFI was […]
ET Group’s 2019 Societal Transformation Lab This is the story of ET Group’s (ETG) journey through the Societal Transformation Lab (s-lab). ETG is a Toronto-based collaboration […]
This is part of a series on Social Presencing. Find other posts here: June 11, 2019 post, Social Presencing – A Practice for Tapping into Collective […]