fullfathomfifty: soundings in leadership
A Manager’s Tool Kit: A 10-Part Series to Equip Yourself, Your Team & Your Organization
We’ve pondered extensively and expansively about the nature of management and leadership: What is it? How do you measure it? How do you foster it? What do the managers we know need most? And thus, The Manager’s Tool Kit came into being.
After much testing and refinement we decided it was high time to put our thoughts to paper and invite you into our ongoing conversations.
Notice Everything
Halfway There This last week we enjoyed a bursting strawberry moon on the summer solstice. We’re halfway through the Earth’s orbit and the calendar year. It’s also the sixth month mark in my year’s commitment to daily meditations.
The Possibility Factor
We are in the third and final day of a national junior high chess tournament. It’s a multicultural scene with students from across the country and all ethnic backgrounds.
Confessions of a Chess Mom
Over the last year I have become an avid proponent of chess through watching my son play on his middle school chess team. The benefits of chess are multi-fold.
The Attention Span of Trees
I’ve been noticing trees. Perhaps because it’s early winter and the trees stand tall and naked against the contours of the land.
A Path of Least Resistance?
I've often been asked: what do horses and the sea have to do with executive development? It's a fair question. Surely there are easier ways to offer rising leaders a customized interactive and reflective experience supported by executive coaching?
A Universally Cool Tool: 4-Count Breathing
About two decades ago my little brother, a career Navy SEAL, taught me a breathing technique that has since become my favorite go-to mindfulness tool, not unlike my trusty Swiss Army knife that accompanies me on all outdoor adventures.