What’s the way to a team’s heart?
Teams do have a personality and identity of their own. Each member of the team brings their perspectives, voices, actions to bear to impact the entire organization, at all levels. By virtue of being a system in its right, a...
byLucy Shenouda
Take a Walk with a Turtle. Take a Six Second Pause.
The pause brings me much needed stillness in a world in chaos. I feel calm in distancing myself from the pain of moments ago. The painful feeling of excessive stress. Solving difficult problems. Remembering a difficult conversation. A pause. A...
byLucy Shenouda
Perseverance: Being Present to Discomfort
I’ve come to appreciate perseverance comes from being present to discomfort. Feeling uncomfortable is disconcerting and disorienting. Over the years, feeling discomfort and being present to what's needed in those moments has led me to challenges and obstacles to be...
byLucy Shenouda
At the Boarding Gate. Sublime.
At the boarding gate. Sublime. Awaiting a flight somewhere new, someplace different yet familiar, I want to freeze time. I want to be in the moment for as long as possible. I want to savour the mystery, to visualize my...
byLucy Shenouda
Curiousity. Are we raising the bar?
The visionaries who raise the bar in their chosen fields are leadership ‘greats’ walking converging paths marked with persistence and resolve. As they do new things, they win, they fail, they learn, they win again, fail again and continue on...
byLucy Shenouda
Pack Your Patience
It’s also a time we say: “Summer’s over!” with a deep-seated sense of reluctance. It’s as though we are getting ready to pack it in, to move on to another season before it’s actually begun. It’s habitual, a societal norm....
byLucy Shenouda
Understood. Copy That. 10-4
I am fascinated by the knowing and not knowing of people and situations. I notice the outward appearances, colours, movements and facial expressions. I observe. I wonder about the situation. I speculate, extrapolate. We all do it.
byLucy Shenouda
Camaraderie
I am less than one year into a new role, job and country. I feel vulnerable, in a humbling sort of way. Even in the early days in my career, this is a familiar feeling. Just before I present something...
byLucy Shenouda
Opening New Doors
The people in the organization that bring curiousity into conversation open new doors. They start the process of setting the bar of excellence. The persistence in digging deeper, challenging the status quo and doing so with a true sense of...
byLucy Shenouda
Do we raise the bar?
The visionaries who raise the bar in their chosen fields walk converging paths marked with hope and fear. As they do new things, they win, they fail, they learn, they win again, fail again and continue on their journey resilient...
byLucy Shenouda
