by Dr. Chris Johnson | Jan 9, 2014 | Attention, Embodied Leadership, Learning, Mindfulness
It actually came as a surprise, the sudden awareness of my felt need for rest. I was mindful enough to have known this year would be full of challenges, what with the bumps and scrapes of being newly married, the on-the-ground care in supporting both my parents with...
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 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 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...