The Soulful Lens at Work: Like a Hot Knife Through Butter - Sharpen Your Message 🔪🧈💬
In This Edition Of The Soulful Lens at Work: Most people are either too vague or too detailed. Being concise and specific means that you can be brief while still being tangible. SOULFUL: Stop crushing listener’s souls with meandering and gauzy words. Decoding what your message is exhausting people. PRACTICAL: Reclaim time wasted in sloppy communication, and channel them into real business impact. THE CONNECTION: Ditch six empty buzzwords and watch your message land with maximum force. TRY...
4 days ago • 7 min readThe Soulful Lens at Work: Like a Hot Knife Through Butter - Sharpen Your Message 🔪🧈💬
In This Edition Of The Soulful Lens at Work: Most people are either too vague or too detailed. Being concise and specific means that you can be brief while still being tangible. SOULFUL: Stop crushing listener’s souls with meandering and gauzy words. Decoding what your message is exhausting people. PRACTICAL: Reclaim time wasted in sloppy communication, and channel them into real business impact. THE CONNECTION: Ditch six empty buzzwords and watch your message land with maximum force. TRY...
11 days ago • 7 min readThe Soulful Lens at Work: Why Your Improvements Are a Waste 🔄 🚫
In This Edition Of The Soulful Lens at Work: Most improvements feel good, but only the right ones actually move the needle. SOULFUL: Fixing anything feels good, but fixing the right things is where integrity (and soul) live. PRACTICAL: Using a blunt instrument for Transformation wastes capacity. Nothing comes without a cost. THE CONNECTION: Don’t let proxy metrics fool you; measure impact, not activity, and let data speak for you. TRY THIS: Pressure-test one improvement this week — forecast,...
18 days ago • 6 min readThe Soulful Lens at Work: Why Your Improvements Are a Waste 🔄 🚫
In This Edition Of The Soulful Lens at Work: Most improvements feel good, but only the right ones actually move the needle. SOULFUL: Fixing anything feels good, but fixing the right things is where integrity (and soul) live. PRACTICAL: Using a blunt instrument for Transformation wastes capacity. Nothing comes without a cost. THE CONNECTION: Don’t let proxy metrics fool you; measure impact, not activity, and let data speak for you. TRY THIS: Pressure-test one improvement this week — forecast,...
25 days ago • 6 min readThe Soulful Lens at Work: Should you Abandon Process in High-Stakes? 🤔🚨
In This Edition Of The Soulful Lens at Work: When things get intense, do you drop the process—or lean on it?This newsletter explores how soulful, crisis-ready process can protect your people and your outcomes when it matters most. SOULFUL:How do we hold soulfulness when everything feels uncertain? PRACTICAL:What’s your plan when the usual process breaks under pressure? THE CONNECTION:Are you unintentionally adding risk—by cutting the structure that holds people together? TRY THIS:What can do...
about 1 month ago • 6 min readThe Soulful Lens at Work: Should you Abandon Process in High-Stakes? 🤔🚨
In This Edition Of The Soulful Lens at Work: When things get intense, do you drop the process—or lean on it?This newsletter explores how soulful, crisis-ready process can protect your people and your outcomes when it matters most. SOULFUL:How do we hold soulfulness when everything feels uncertain? PRACTICAL:What’s your plan when the usual process breaks under pressure? THE CONNECTION:Are you unintentionally adding risk—by cutting the structure that holds people together? TRY THIS:What can do...
about 1 month ago • 6 min readThe Soulful Lens at Work: Too Busy to Think? Let’s Fix That. 🧠⏳
In This Edition Of The Soulful Lens at Work: This week we’re looking at why we don’t have time to think, and what it’s costing us. The good news is, we can change it! SOULFUL: Remember when deep work felt good? Flow isn’t fluff—it’s soul fuel. PRACTICAL: No thinking = no edge. Thinking time looks unproductive—until your competitors outpace you. THE CONNECTION: Want to move up? Start thinking like the strategist you’re becoming. TRY THIS: Don’t just hope for time to think—build it in, name it,...
about 2 months ago • 6 min readThe Soulful Lens at Work: Too Busy to Think? Let’s Fix That. 🧠⏳
In This Edition Of The Soulful Lens at Work: This week we’re looking at why we don’t have time to think, and what it’s costing us. The good news is, we can change it! SOULFUL: Remember when deep work felt good? Flow isn’t fluff—it’s soul fuel. PRACTICAL: No thinking = no edge. Thinking time looks unproductive—until your competitors outpace you. THE CONNECTION: Want to move up? Start thinking like the strategist you’re becoming. TRY THIS: Don’t just hope for time to think—build it in, name it,...
about 2 months ago • 6 min readThe Soulful Lens at Work: I Just Got Shut Down in a Meeting! What Now? 🚪🤔
In This Edition Of The Soulful Lens at Work: Having your contribution shut down in a meeting ranks among the most soul-crushing experiences at work. How you handle it can make-or-break the outcome. SOULFUL: Part of the soul-crushing feeling is your power being taken. Take the power back by turning the shut-down into a question. PRACTICAL: Cutting off contributions deprives the organization of ideas and maintains its fragility. Identifying where the system is fragile can help you navigate...
2 months ago • 7 min readThe Soulful Lens at Work: Is Experimentation Waste? 🤔💡
In This Edition Of The Soulful Lens at Work: This newsletter has a new format! Let’s walk through what each section means so you’re ready for the next issue. SOULFUL: Learning can feel exhilarating! Trying different things until something works is fun. PRACTICAL: Uncertainty can be a competitive advantage if you can learn and adapt quickly. And it results in a better offering. THE CONNECTION: There is delight in surprises, and a surprising result means you’ve uncovered new information. TRY...
3 months ago • 4 min read