by Pam Hernandez | May 6, 2018 | Change, Front Page, Personal Growth, Self Acceptance, self confidence
There’s an interesting article in this Sunday’s New York Times, “The Upside of Envy.” The author (Gordon Marino) states that envy is the hardest emotion for us to own. Instead most of us will find a reason to disparage the person or thing that...
by Pam Hernandez | Sep 27, 2017 | Career, Change, Corporate Culture, Front Page, Leadership, self confidence
The new CEO of Uber, Dara Khosrowshahi, the former CEO of Expedia, penned this departing note to his Expedia employees: I have to tell you I am scared. I’ve been here at Expedia for so long that I’ve forgotten what life is like outside this place. But the...
by Pam Hernandez | Jul 20, 2017 | Change, Corporate Culture, Culture Audit, Front Page, The Leadership Circle
Organizational culture has often been imagined as a tree with deep roots. You don’t see the roots but they dictate the health of the tree. Often change efforts fail because they address only what is visible, the leaves and branches so to speak. But the deeply rooted...
by Pam Hernandez | Jun 18, 2017 | Career, Change, Front Page, Personal Growth, The Leadership Circle, Well-being
I was working with a client the other day and he said, “You know – this creative/reactive thing we’ve been talking about. It applies to everything.” I had to smile. He’s right. So many people think leadership at work is like a coat we put on – a set of external...
by Pam Hernandez | Feb 8, 2017 | Change, Front Page, Generations, Personal Growth, Well-being
Did you ever play Crack the Whip as a kid? It’s where a bunch of kids line up and hold the next one’s hand and the leader of the line runs crazily in random directions. The rest of the kids follow (like a whip). When inevitably two kids lose their grip and the whip...
by Pam Hernandez | Dec 9, 2016 | Change, Children, Fathers, Front Page
Watching all the memorials of the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, I found myself tearing up. My father enlisted in the Navy in June of 1944. He was only 17 and his mother had to sign her permission. He served through 1946 on the USS Enterprise. He...
