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Tools and Theories: The Fallacy of Neutral

Often when I’m brought into new systems, clients say a variation on a theme: “We need someone neutral to help us figure this out.” I get it. Chances are you’re dealing with a big, hairy, thorny issue and what you are looking for is someone to...

Tools and Theories: If you’re going to cry, go outside

Tools and Theories

This is a the title of a book by famous publicist Kelly Cutrone. I have never read the book (maybe someday for a future Tools & Theories post!), but I have always resonated with the concept espoused in the title. The book and Kelly Cutrone’s fame was at a fever...

Theories and Tools: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Tools and Theories

Have you heard of this book? OMG, you haven’t? OMG, let me tell you all about it. This book changed my life. I am not joking. I had coffee with a buddy a few months ago. She works for a local bookstore and reads a trillion books a week. I have no idea how many...

Tools and Theories: Waterline, If You Only Have One Tool in Your Toolbox…

Cornerstone, Tools and Theories

Tools and Theories are exactly what it sounds like: The Tools and Theories I use to inform my work. Sometimes I’ll highlight my own methodologies and sometimes I’ll talk about a specific book, workshop, or new theory I’m trying on. If you have a...

Tools and Theories: An Annual Review that Actually Works

Tools and Theories

An Annual Review that Actually Works In the spirit of New Year’s resolutions, I want to advocate for a particular part of the process that often gets left out. We make and establish goals by often doing some internal soul-searching and deciding that what we see isn’t...