PowerPivot

Quiet Quitting isn't really quitting at all. And if employers treated employees with dignity, we wouldn't be talking about it. An article from In These Times on the Fed, interest rates, and how the Fed's response to inflation is "highly likely to involve some pain." https://inthesetimes.com/article/federal-reserve-workers-pay-biden-inflation-corporations-profits-wages

We are made to be interconnected. We are made to rely on each other, which means we need other people around us. We fall down when we become too reliant on our individualism because being an individual is like being a table with only one leg.

Get to the finish line and find that dopamine! Intensives, the 80% Problem, and deliberately finding things that we can do well and to completion in order to build trust in our own abilities to change the world.

Classified documents in Mar-a-Lago and the way that individual decisions about self-preservation can do large harm; and a path towards decision making that makes space for the humanity of those who will be affected by our choices. Links: An NPR story regarding the photography of classified documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago. Wikipedia article about Tank Man and CNN footage of most, but not all, o...

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These things that I know I need are also things that I am noticing other people need. And when we provide those things for people like us what happens? We become better. https://www.graceedison.com/ https://www.lacma.org/patternproject https://www.lacma.org/sites/default/files/module-uploads/M.2007.211.797_LACMA_pattern_proj.pdf

We are trained to isolate like cats when we're hurting. We are trained to go off by ourselves and pretend that nothing's wrong until we can emerge whole and beautiful and sparkly-- and you know what? That is bullshit. That whole system is bullshit it's not working and we gotta stop.

In moments like this it is absolutely critical that we not shut down dreaming, that we not down shut possibilities of things that we had heretofore believed impossible. Founders, intensives-- we tend to be very, very good at finding loopholes and looking for things that nobody else has thought of yet. We know we're good at crisis. We know we're good at creative. Let's go do it.

A brief introduction to the SIEF framework, and why we should show the expansives in our lives a lot of love.

People are not disposable. And yet many of our institutions and systems treat them as if they are. And you would think this would be obvious, but people are not commodities. So how do we reshape our businesses and institutions so that people are not seen as a resource to be used up and spit out, but as an integral part of everything we do, and one which needs to be nourished and kept healthy? Chec...

Join Leela for a conversation with Holly Hagerman, founder at AmptUp.com, an online marketplace to connect venues and musicians through a lens of equity, fair pay and contract usage. Holly shares stories about the founding of the company and talks about AmptUp's mission-based objectives of making it easier for music and venues to make a living; increasing equity, both in pay and representation, fo...

This is the one about making time. This is the one about making space and making time and making the room in our hearts to do the things we know we should do.

The ethical responsibility we have to provide to our customers what we told them we would provide. And if we have to stop providing a service, we must provide customers with an off-ramp, so that they can ease out of our service and into something else, rather than a cliff which leave them scrambling, or falling.

Generosity. Kindness. Fierceness. Justice. Pleasure. Yes, we can have them all, if we understand the ways that they and we are interconnected, the ways that justice and pleasure and generosity and kindness and fierceness all rely on each other. They become more when they are together, not less. They become more, we become more; there is no priority of one over the others.

In light of this morning's (June 24, 2022) Supreme Court decision and how it affects Roe v. Wade and safe access to reproductive care, what can we, as business owners, do to affect useful change- for the world, for our employees? How do we create the leadership that we need. How do we make sure that the things we make will not be used for evil?

The shouting is the first step. But it is only the first step. Shouting is a way of knowing there is a problem. The shouting is a way of finding the problem. My body has to know simultaneously that my heart is breaking and that I am doing everything that I can to save us. Ani DiFranco, "Coming Up:" https://youtu.be/OaSE7F6dgG4 Mina Raver: https://www.instagram.com/mina.raver/ and https://www.forgi...

I have said since the beginning, that poetry is my first language. We are not alone. And your story is as important as mine. Each story is as important as each other story. And when we bring our stories together and we tell them and we share our narratives and we share ourselves, we... exist. Ari Felix at Saltwater Stars: https://www.saltwaterstars.com/

Leela Sinha on wholistic SIEF-Smart hiring practices for intensive business leaders. Watch this episode as a video: https://youtu.be/DjYBFKwVf3Y Links! www.intensivesinstitute.com SIEF assessment: https://intensivesinstitute.com/assessment/ Five-Session SIEF-Smart Hiring Package (includes getting to know your company, job description writing, interviewing, onboarding, and post-onboarding review):...

Why we’re doing poetry right now, and not prose....

Starbucks, Redwoods, love, work, community, and everything: the key to being served well is to being known. And rather than take our strengths for granted, we need to we need to play to our strengths and then allow ourselves to be in community, in collaboration, with other people where we need help, where we need support, where we're not as strong. Find Monica Scantlebury here: https://www.monicam...

Recorded on May 18, 2022. Leela responds to the recent mass shootings in Buffalo and elsewhere.