Category: Leadership

Tackling Our Die-Hard Behavior patterns

The ONE Idea "Spontaneity propels the individual towards an adequate response to a new situation or a new response to an old situation." Jacob Levy Moreno, founder of Psychodrama. It occurred to me that we can sort things into two main categories: Old Response to an Old Situation Nothing changes. The situation repeats, and we […]

The power of boundaries

This ONE Idea In a recent coaching session, a client shared a profound insight at his “ah-ha” moment: At first, this seems paradoxical. After all, rigidity is often the enemy of fluidity. As a coach, a significant part of my job is to shake up the rigidity to allow fluidity in my client's system, so […]

The Trap of Passiveness: Why We Resist Taking Control

Happy This ONE Friday! Inertia is the very reason why routine works. It is also why we keep repeating a certain pattern, whether it works for or against us. This week, I chanced upon an old friend: passiveness. This ONE Idea “"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to […]

Emotions unmasked: the Kaleidoscope of Your Inner World

This ONE by Yolanda Yu This ONE idea and its manifestations in life and career Happy This ONE Friday! A big “thank you” to everyone who provided feedback! Your insights, both encouraging and constructive, are invaluable. Moving forward, I’ll make my content more digestible by keeping it shorter and simpler. Instead of five branches of […]

Need more visibility in your company but…

You are doing well in your career and poised to get promoted. Then a mentor, often also a senior executive, tells you that you must become more visible in the larger organization for bigger success. You know what that means: shout out about your achievement, speak more, speak louder, socialize, network, pitch, sell, boast. You […]

This ONE: Dancing with polarity

Since childhood, we've been taught to see things in binary terms: this and that, success and failure, good and bad. At its best, it helps us simplify decisions. But more often than not, this view creates major problems for us. For one, life’s richness often lies in the spaces between yes and no, black and […]

Don't set goals, set a system that wins.

I was with Daniel Pieper at the “Futureproofing your career” webinar on Tuesday. Daniel is the former CIO of Hoolah, a fintech startup acquired by ShopBack a few years ago. His entrepreneurship journey began even before he graduated from university and he had to defer his studies to be the full-time CEO of his own […]

This ONE – How trustworthy are you?

But while writing this newsletter, I am not feeling happy. And I think that is okay. My daughter’s close friend, also a 5-year-old girl, lost her mother last night. Though unfamiliar with her mother, I have met the girl many times. In the past years, she had grown from a timid toddler to a sweet […]