This week Mike Edwards joins us from his blog.   Throughout my career I spent a lot of time focused on getting ahead. I would watch the people who seemed to be moving forward, and try to mimic them. I would try to be more extroverted than I really am. I would try to suppress my sense (more…)

This week Mike Edwards joins us from his blog. Have you ever awakened at 3am and been unable to fall back asleep? This morning that happened for me and I started thinking about stuff. Most notably I've been thinking about this (more…)

This week Mike Edwards joins us from his blog with a post about wins. Several years ago I learned the phrase "I am free, powerful and at choice" from my friend Christopher Avery. I remember thinking at the time it sounded a little slogan-like but I was curious what was really behind these words. Christopher leads The Leadership Gift™ Program so...

This week Mike Edwards joins us from his blog with a post about wins. Over the past couple weeks I have found myself to be in a rut. Almost a bad mood of sorts. Given all the work I've done in the past year to improve myself this was getting under my skin. How could this be happening again?! (more…)

A guest post by Mike Edwards from his blog. In a past job I was tasked with helping teams improve. Long story short ... one of the Directors would parachute into a team meeting occasionally and bully people into doing what he believed they should do. His behavior involved an adversarial tone & body language, banging fist on the table, and just...