by Misti Burmeister | May 26, 2016 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
Two of the greatest lies destroying our workforce today are: we can’t earn a living using our God-given talents & my employees don’t care. In reality, we all want to use our natural talents to help our team, company, community, country, and our world—we just don’t...
by Misti Burmeister | May 19, 2016 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
People who want your stuff—want your stuff. You don’t have to force the gift that is you. The right people come and the wrong ones go. Your job is to focus on the ones who stay, even after you risked the possibility of rejection on the deepest level. Reject who I was...
by Misti Burmeister | May 12, 2016 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
Last week, I talked about how to give yourself permission to struggle (evolve). In this post, I share what I think of as the most important element to our personal growth. Acknowledging the difficulty of evolution is the perfect place to begin. Recognizing the sheer...
by Misti Burmeister | May 5, 2016 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
Having moved many times in my life, I’d grown accustomed to the (hidden) benefit of starting over—zero expectations. When you’re brand new to a community, they don’t know what to expect, and so you have a chance to try on new behaviors and beliefs. Changing the way we...
by Misti Burmeister | Apr 28, 2016 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
Neatly stacked piles of paper with research from Harvard, Wharton, and Stanford sat on the table as we began our discussion about the event we were planning. “What’s that?” I asked my soul sister and colleague, Mali Phonpadith, excited to talk about how we can pull...
by Misti Burmeister | Apr 21, 2016 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
While anger, irritation, frustration, and sadness are generally undesirable, they can be quite useful in uncovering the difference we need to make. Complaining is another clue to pay attention to—the stronger and more consistent the complaint, the greater the...
