Each week, I collect the resources related to leadership, personal growth, and professional development I shared on social media the prior week, with the accompanying quotations.
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Julie Winkle Giulioni:
“Short fuses, high stakes: An argument for grace-based leadership” (5-8-25).
“[Grace-based leadership is] about recognizing that people are trying, struggling, and human — and leading in a way that honors both performance and dignity.”
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Marshall Goldsmith, in the foreword to Real-Time Leadership: Find Your Winning Moves When the Stakes Are High (2023), by David Noble and Carol Kauffman, commends the valuable question the latter earlier shared with him:
“‘Am I being the person I want to be, right now?'”
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Madeleine Aggeler:
“‘An optimal state of consciousness’: is flow the secret to happiness?” (5-8-25).
“[Mihaly] Csikszentmihalyi identified seven conditions that seem to be present when a person is in a flow state.”
These include:
“Feeling part of something bigger than yourself.”
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Editorial Director Roberta Fusaro of McKinsey & Company interviews Senior Partner Arne Gast:
“Don’t get stuck in a rut—update how you operate” (5-8-25).
“The moment you know why you’re doing the work, what you’re building, why you love doing it for your customers, why you love doing it for society, why you love doing it for the people in your building, and it’s a little bit of your own learning school…, then it’s not so much just a job, but you have more energy to do the work.”
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Frank Sonnenberg:
“Beyond Feel-Good — How to Find Fulfillment That Lasts”
(5-13-25).
“True fulfillment comes from focusing on what truly matters: being authentic, living with honor and integrity, bringing out the best in others, and making a meaningful impact.”
