Accelus Insights:
The Leadership Narrative

Highlight, underline, highlight, underline, dog-ear, dog-ear, dog-ear. Now, Discover Your Strengths is the most demarcated book in my bookshelves. Here’s why: my most commonly occurring pattern of thought, feeling or behavior is that focusing on strengths is the way to stimulate personal and group excellence. Nothing is more powerful for...

Over the past month I have addressed a few different subjects yet all had a common thread. Do you see how they are connected? Here are the links to check them out: Socrates is Still in Business Needs to be Known Getting Naked What Other People Think You might be...

At a recent dinner with a friend, she expressed that maybe after 20 plus years of working in her field perhaps she wanted to do something different.  That it would energize her and be fun to explore another side of life both professionally and personally.  But how would she reinvent...

So often in my work as a coach, I hear “what will people think” as an excuse for a client not doing what they truly want to do. It is not usually iterated that clearly at first; it takes the form of a different excuse. Yet, with a little probing,...

Given the furor over the movie Fifty Shades of Grey, you may wonder what a review of a book titled Getting Naked is doing in a professional coach’s repertoire. Because we all do it every day and if we can embrace it physically then we can embrace it mentally and...

The great philosopher Socrates said that “To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.” Oh great one, then please do tell how we come to know ourselves. Fortunately, this is where the passage of time works in our favor. It is estimated that Socrates lived between the years of 470 to...