You, friend. Are a leader. We all are. Leadership is not a title given to us by someone else. It is a choice each of us make, every moment of every day. Leadership is not convincing someone else of our way of thinking, or telling others what to do (both of these things are more […]
Author Archives: growmotely
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As leaders of companies, we don’t need to see any formal statistics to know that the happiness levels of our team members (not to mention ourselves) impact performance, creativity and motivation significantly. Isn’t it worth it, then, to invest earnestly in practices that increase our happiness and the happiness of our team members? Of course […]
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I’m flying today from Chicago to Paris. This will not be my first time flying this route. I’ve spent about half of my life in the United States, and about half of my life in Europe (including the UK). Before COVID hit, I was backing-and-forthing at least three times per year. It took me many, […]
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There are so many ways to measure what we’re doing – and the impact we’re having – as business owners and as companies. How do we choose the metrics that are the best fit for us? The metrics that are measuring the things we really care about? We all know what the standard, accepted metrics […]
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Carlos is moving to Georgia. You know, the country that shares a border with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia and Turkey. I can’t tell you when exactly…because he doesn’t know yet. It will probably be at some point in the first half of 2022. This is incredible. Who is Carlos, you ask? And: how does this news […]
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As leaders of companies, everything we do matters. How we design and lead meetings matters, too. Here at Growmotely, we’re not about having millions of meetings, but we do recognize the importance of gathering. We see ‘getting together’ – when we do it – as a way to create more of what we want when […]
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I recently took five days off. I’ve been moving through quite a transition, an evolution, over the past few weeks and as the call to further commit to a new way of being was bearing down on me I was increasingly feeling overwhelmed.
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Many of us are familiar with the concept of our ‘shadow selves’ – those parts of us that we would rather not be. Carl Jung brought these ideas to us in the 20th century and in doing so gave us some incredible tools to understand ourselves and our behaviors on a deeper level. The concept […]
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Off the back of a rousing chat a couple of weeks ago with Growmotely’s Operations Director, Cass Biyang, I ‘dug out’ a TED Talk that a friend had sent me a few years back. It was a talk given by the author Taiye Selasi, in which she breaks open the question that is so often asked: ‘Where […]
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Do you say ‘thank you’ (in Japanese) when you find a coin on the ground? And: do you say ‘thank you’ (in Japanese) when you pay your electricity bill? If not – WHAT?! We need to talk. Ken Honda thinks you should. And I do, too! Let me explain. OK – so here’s how the […]