Speak Not For Your Sake

Have you ever spoken to someone thinking “How can I deliver this thought for their sake and not
for my sake? How can I say something not to get it off my chest but for the message to be heard
by the other person?”… Read More

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Gossip: Can I stop it before it starts?

Leprosy is described in the Torah as a skin disease that can manifest in your skin, clothing, and even your house. Rabbis throughout the centuries described leprosy as a manifestation and even punishment for “evil speech,” commonly known as gossip and called in Hebrew lashon hara. … Read More

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Are you done for today?

“Are you done for today?” My husband was coming down the stairs from his home office at about 5 PM. I looked up from my computer and I heard him say “I am done for today.”… Read More

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Compare and Complete

I want to share a story from years ago. If you wonder why I even remember this
story, it's because I experience and see it nowadays. It’s a story about competing
and comparing ourselves to other people.… Read More

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Go Together, Go Farther

I recently heard an African quote that stopped me in my tracks and slowed me down.

“If you want to go faster, go alone. If you want to go farther, go together.”… Read More

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Empowerment to Leadership

Every year at this time, I think of my first day in fourth grade
 
My mother sent my sister and me on the first day of school, in a city we do not know,  to a
school we’d never been to. All by ourselves.… Read More

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Can Our Emotions Get in The Way?

I often hear the need of employers to get their teams aligned.

But with what?

A lot of the time teams work toward an alignment of projects, an alignment of intellect, an alignment of behavior.… Read More

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