One more orbit around the Sun!
As 2025 begins, many people feel the "new year energy" and a desire to start fresh. But it’s worth considering that the concept of a new year is entirely human-made. To a spacecraft that orbits Earth 16 times a day crossing all time zones, a new day starts every few hours. We are the ones […]
Coaching a CEO in transition
This is a quote my coachee brought up in our coaching session. Despite describing himself as a hardcore Android believer, he deeply resonated with what Jobs said and concluded that “people either change the world or follow the world.” In that session, what opened up was about the forces to change the world or follow. […]
Surrounded by Idiots
This ONE by Yolanda Yu This ONE idea and its manifestations in life and career Happy This ONE Friday! Many of us feel like we are surrounded by “idiots” at work – people who are lazy, ineffective, mischievous, uncommitted, self-centered, etc. The book “Surrounded by Idiots” by Thomas Erikson explores this phenomenon and what’s creating […]
The roles we play, what do cherries have in common with humans
Some of you have done this exercise with me: a constellation work to map out team relationships. Depending on where we were, I drew them on whiteboard, paper, iPad, or enlisted things on hand, tissue, scrap paper, pens, etc. But today was special: I happened to have cherries in my bag. So I used cherries. […]
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 […]
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 […]