Embrace the Chaos

The kids were driving me crazy!  I needed to get their energy expressed somehow but it was very windy and cold outside.  I just couldn’t take their whining anymore and needed some air.  So I took them for their first ever, “run” in a nearby park.  By chance, I grabbed some bread on our way out, for the deer [...]

My 4 year old daughter has a life threatening egg and nut allergy.  We discovered it when she was about 10 months old when we gave her a piece of egg to eat.  She broke out in a horrible rash, vomited, turned blue and passed out. I didn’t know if she was alive in the [...]

I used to be one of those people who was in awe of the choices we have all around us.  “Give me more information”, I used to say.  From my career to my life at home, I used to utilize information – lots of it – to make any decision, small or big.  I needed [...]

I’m in New Delhi, India this week on a short work trip.  I’ve been here several times but I always end up learning something new about how people live and work in this country of 1.2 billion people.  Yup, 1.2 BILLION.  It’s crazy…so many people, everywhere! [tidbit:  India is about a third of the size [...]

There is so much chaos at work these days.  People are living with so much stress and anxiety due to uncertainty at work.  Based on my own personal experience of living with chaos at work, I’ve come up with 3 ways to Embrace the Chaos at work: 1. Accept [Rule#1] that organizational change will happen [...]