by Brian Fippinger | Jun 17, 2013 | Attention, Embodied Leadership, Passion
Dateline: Fish Creek, Wisconsin. For those of you who are not from the midwest, Fish Creek is in Door County, Wisconsin. To get here you turn northeast from Green Bay and head up the little finger of land that creates the bay out of Lake Michigan. This quiet little...
by Brian Fippinger | May 6, 2013 | Embodied Leadership, Passion, Practice
Follow your passion. Sounds easy, right? Isn’t that something that we have heard from the time we were little people? Do what you love and you will never work a day in your life, goes the old cliché. Over the years of talking to hundreds (maybe thousands) of...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Mar 16, 2013 | Attention, Learning, Mindfulness, Practice, Resilience
They were in line at the coffee shop just ahead of me. She, a petite, young blond with doe-blue eyes; he, an older, slight man, perhaps a Greek or Italian immigrant, with broken English, twinkling eyes and a smile the width of his face. While ordering him breakfast...
by Brian Fippinger | Mar 5, 2013 | Culture, Embodied Leadership
Hiring, working on and managing Virtual Teams (VT) is a way of life today. Most teams today have a virtual component. While a high minority of those teams are fully virtual. Technology (cellular, text, email, Skype, social media, etal) is both our most cherished...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Feb 25, 2013 | Attention, Learning, Mindfulness, Practice, Resilience
Think you’re never going to live through the winter? Daydreaming of sandy, sun-lit beaches? Even with the first day of spring only a few short weeks away, you may find yourself eagerly itching for the vernal equinox with its more balanced, 12-hour sunlight to...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Feb 16, 2013 | Attention, Embodied Leadership, Learning, Mindfulness, Practice, Resilience
While on the slopes, one day socked in and having trouble seeing a few feet in front of me while another day relishing the fresh powder, I was, well, skiing. Thoughts of work, of bills to pay, of decisions to be made at the office or at home–were fleeting...
by Brian Fippinger | Jan 4, 2013 | Culture, Embodied Leadership, Resilience
4 January 2013 I don’t consider myself that old, but when I began working at the age of 18, I assumed that I would have one career. I thought there might even be a chance I only would have one employer. After all, I started working for the Bell System and that was...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Jan 2, 2013 | Culture, Embodied Leadership |
As of January 1, 2013 Brian Fippinger of Fippinger Total Resources, Inc. joins us at Q4 Consulting expanding our family of services. A Staffing and Recruiting firm, FTR brings a variety of skills to our work of engaging, retaining, training and developing talented...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Dec 31, 2012 | Embodied Leadership, Mindfulness, Resilience
Passion-Purpose- Potential is the newly named, official blog of Q4 Consulting. It continues to be focused on the integration of mind, body, and spirit at work, and, ultimately, in all aspects of life. However, it also reveals the shared vision and integration of Q4...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Feb 13, 2012 | Embodied Leadership, Resilience
“Shhhhh, we don’t talk about work-life balance here,” an HR professional recently told Kyra Cavanaugh, President of Life Meets Work. Kyra, a leader in the flexible work consulting sector, shared her enthusiasm for a more flexible life at a meeting I...
