Leading Life: In focus
Elizabeth Odders-White Elizabeth Odders-White

Leading Life: In focus

It's hard to believe that we’ve already arrived at the final post in the Leading Life series! Where has the time gone? We’ll wrap up by spending a few minutes focusing on… focus.

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Leading Life: Trust me
Elizabeth Odders-White Elizabeth Odders-White

Leading Life: Trust me

Today we’ll turn our attention to a critical ingredient of all successful relationships, both personal and professional: trust.

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Leading Life: Less is more
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Leading Life: Less is more

The message that’s been buzzing around me over the past couple of weeks is this: “Less prep, more presence.”

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Leading Life: Story problems
Elizabeth Odders-White Elizabeth Odders-White

Leading Life: Story problems

We glance over at a colleague during a high-stakes meeting and notice the frown on his face. Immediately, our mind gets to work… "He hates this idea. He’s going to do everything possible to kill my proposal..."

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Leading Life: Day by day
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Leading Life: Day by day

In this post, I’ll concentrate on a simple and poweful technique called “daily questions,” recommended by Marshall Goldsmith.

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Leading Life: A value proposition?
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Leading Life: A value proposition?

In the first post in the Leading Life series, I shared simple steps for crafting a life-purpose statement. Here, we’ll focus on clarifying our values.

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Leading Life: It’s all you
Elizabeth Odders-White Elizabeth Odders-White

Leading Life: It’s all you

Whether you’re a higher-ed leader trying to maintain some sense of balance or someone who simply wants to spend a bit more time focusing on things that matter, I think you’ll find tools here that can help.

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