Beyond Boundaries Blog:
Unlocking Potential at the
Edge of Possibilities
For years I told myself I had high standards. The truth was simpler and less flattering: I was correcting everything before anyone else got the chance to.
A report would land on my desk and I'd rewrite half of it before it even went out. We'd be in a meeting, someone would make a call, and I'd quie...
The truth about emotional intelligence at work
Low emotional intelligence doesn't announce itself. Nobody stands up in a meeting and says "I can't take feedback" or "I need to be right more than I need to be effective." It sh...
All month we have been circling one idea. Authority is not about how you look. It is about who you are being. So let me bring it all home, because there is one distinction that ties the whole thing together.
When we walk into a room worried about how we are coming across, managing the image, trying...
When we lead from performance instead of presence, we do not just feel tired. We start to drift, and most of the time we cannot see it happening.
It shows up in one of a few ways.
Some of us get louder. We overcompensate, we talk more, we push harder, we try to prove something. We mistake volume f...
Think about the most powerful person you have ever been in a room with. Not the loudest. The most powerful.
I would put money on this, they were calm. Not switched off, not passive, calm. There was a stillness to them. They did not rush to fill silences. They did not get rattled when someone pushed...