I was recently working with a leader who had just lost a much-valued employee to a competitor. He had invested a large amount of time in mentoring and training the person and had high hopes and expectations for his career. The employee was someone clearly identified as “top talent” within the company — and what’s more, the resignation came as a complete surprise. The team leader was feeling let down and annoyed.
March 10, 2024
We Need to Rethink Our Ideas About Aging
Here’s a utopian ideal: a world in which the “old” are permitted and encouraged to learn new things, to fall in love, to make mistakes, to feel beautiful; in short, to believe life is that myriad of possibilities we consider the prerogative of the “young.” We’ve seen that feeling young can be the key to being young, so let’s encourage it. There would no longer be a reason to fear
March 3, 2024
Can Bullet Journaling Save You?
Bullet journaling has taken off as a kind of mindfulness-meets-productivity trend that equates organized journaling with an ordered interior life.Photograph by Natalie Emerson Devotees of the Bullet Journal, a cultish notebook-organization system tagged in more than eight million posts on Instagram, will tell you that there are two kinds of notebook people: those who keep multiple notebooks and those who keep just one. Most of us are multiple-notebook people, living