If I were featured as someone who is likeable, I might have mixed feelings about the honour. As I wrote about last week, likeability is a double-edged sword for me. Too fluffy? Superficial?
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As we kick off 2023, we’re re-engaging with the acronym of ELASTIC. I wrote on Energy in December and introduced you to people who exemplify it, and now it’s time to turn our attention to Likeability.
I had reservations about including likeability — it seems subjective, and lacking in gravitas. But as I researched influential leaders, it kept cropping up. So it made the cut.
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We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming…
I’m on the brink of a holiday break, so have decided not to continue our treatment of the ELASTIC acronym until the new year when we can build some momentum with it.
For now, as we close out 2022, I want to circle back to my word of the year, “nourish.”
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Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
~Oscar Wilde
I’ve long been interested in the idea of embodied work. (It probably started 24+ years ago, when I gave birth on my living room floor because my midwives couldn’t get to my small town location in time, as I was in the midst of writing my PhD thesis on rural midwifery!)
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Over the past few years, I could walk into a meeting and guess fairly accurately what the vibe of the group was going to be. Everyone would be tired. Holding it together, but barely. Not a lot of enthusiasm.
These days, it’s less predictable. Some people are still in that place, or worse. Others have found a more sustainable, moderately positive rhythm — subdued, but livable. A few are firing on all cylinders and ready to tackle the next challenge with gusto — but they are almost afraid to admit it.
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