Poltergeists can present a problem, whether they are intending to come through your television or spin straw into gold. Poltergeists these days come through social media, offering multiple spinning wheels, promising to turn the straw of engagement and trust, into the gold of long lasting revenues. For mediation professionals, Read more…
Persistence is tough. The savvy peacebuilding consultant knows this, because she has dealt with clients who would rather give up and return to the comfort of their past dysfunction, rather than attempt to go through the hard work of pushing through to create something new. Persistence requires energy. The savvy Read more…
Business mentors are not the most important parts of your business, but they are definitely an integral portion of the game. Good business mentors can provide three things: Sound, positive feedback that is both constructive and developmental The space to know when to let you fail, and when to push you Read more…
Even in a high tech, money saturated, hard charging culture, values, just like symbols, still matter. Think of values in terms of the following metaphor: If values were the cloud, the story that we tell ourselves and others through our behaviors, language choices, and other means, would be the apps Read more…
It is easier to sit and wait for a situation to change because of external circumstances, than it is to do the hard work of failing. It is easier. Just like it is easier to ignore conflicts in your midst and act like nothing is going wrong inside of your Read more…
Enthusiasm, just like content, can go viral in an organization. Leaders must be the “Patient Zero” in this scenario; caught by a vision, an idea of what could be in an organization, they then inspire to get constituents to strive alongside them. Is this always a positive act? No. Steve Read more…
“Well that was a waste of time.” How often have we either said those words, thought them or wrote a variation of them down? In the pursuit of mastery, there are no such things as “wasted” hours, days, minutes, or even moments. There are only the things that did work Read more…
The savvy peace building consultant looks at project work as another version of the golden handcuffs scenario, they started their project to avoid in the first place. Work for time is the consultant’s version of not scaling. And, in order to effectively scale such transitive and necessary products as peace, Read more…
There are three emotional states that can catch hold of the entrepreneurial peace builder as she is building her project: The fear which is accompanied by every new decision The exhilaration when a client is helped and “closed’ The dread of returning to working for “the Man” The employee mindset Read more…
The savvy peace builder is either all in—or not. But, at a certain point, financial realities take over and the rent must be paid, or the electric bill, and the savvy peace builder must make the choice to make making peace a side hustle. Now, typically the word hustle comes Read more…