Less is best in most cases. We live with a tsunami of information and all we often need is a beach and an umbrella. Malcolm Gladwell in Blink says, "We live in a world saturated with information....The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding." So how do we take this enormous amount of information and turn this into understanding? One way to do this is to embrace the "less is best" motto and it will leave you with the clues to understanding. Malcolm Gladwell speaks to … [Read more...]
Creativity, Card Sorts & The Conversation
Creativity is one of the reasons I enjoy using a variety of "card-sorts" in career coaching with Boomers & with Colby College students. There are no answers printed out from a software program, no one way of using the cards, only the conversation it generates. I LOVE it! If you have not used card sorts in your practice, I suggest you explore using them. If you use them now, keep up the good work! I recently met with a first year college student who was all confused about choosing … [Read more...]