Issue #131, March 31, 2024 Welcome to Insights and Implications! As a follow-on to Robin Charbit’s reflections from last month’s newsletter, Ken Manning shares a bit more about meditation and how it plays nicely with an understanding of Insight Principles. We hope it’s helpful. Happy Spring! All of us at Insight Principles Insight Principles and Meditation A deep realization of the truth of insight principles leads to a quiet, stable state of mind. That state is imbued with clarity, ease, presence, feeling connected within and with others, and the lovely experience of psychological freedom, where one feels inwardly intelligent, insightful, and

Issue #129, January 31 2024 Welcome to Insights and Implications! All humans are hard-wired for connection and closeness, yet the quality and depth of our conversations can vary. This month, Nikki Platte explores what’s happening behind the scenes. Wishing you all the best, All of us at Insight Principles What Accounts For Connection I’m a native English speaker who dabbles in very basic Spanish with the help of frequent travel, Spanish novelas on the tele, and lots of motivation to make the most of a Super DuoLingo subscription. Last week, during a flight to Oaxaca, I sat next to an elderly

Issue #128, December 29 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! As we approach the end of 2023, it seems like a good time for reflection. Read on as Sandy Krot shares her reflections about love. We hope that, as you read, you will find ways to bring more love into the world. We can definitely use it. All of us at Insight Principles What’s Love Got To Do With It? Every once in a while I read a quote or hear something that stops me. I’ll read and reread the quote or listen to the statement again and again. This quote

Issue #127, November 30 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Sleep: so sweet when it comes, so hard when it doesn’t. If you’ve ever endured a night of insomnia, this month’s newsletter is for you. We hope it’s helpful. All of us at Insight Principles Thoughts on Sleep Around 8 years ago, when my kiddo was a toddler, I endured a long period of horrible insomnia. Much of this was rooted in my relationship to being a working mom. It was tough. The hardest part, I think, was what I’ll call the “insomnia meta-stress.” I’d have a rough night of sleep,

Issue #125, September 29 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Fall is here! And as the holiday season looms and the year begins to wind down, you might find yourself needing a bit of inspiration. Luckily, we know just the place to look. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Looking for IN-spiration I recently received an email newsletter entitled “15 Ways To Find Inspiration”. The list included things like: Visit your local bookstore, create a vision board, follow 10 new people on Twitter, and spend time in nature. It also recommended writing yourself a note, traveling, and listening

Issue #124, August 30 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Last month, we told the story of Kate: a highly productive and driven non-profit leader who was leaving a trail of upset employees in the wake of her quest for speed and perfection. You can find that story here: https://insightprinciples.com/newsletter/impatient-execution/ This month, we’d like to share a bit more detail about Kate’s insight and how she is keeping herself accountable. Wishing you happy reading, All of us at Insight Principles Executing Execution Part 2: Feelings as a Guide Through interviews with Kate’s employees, we discovered that she would get impatient

Issue #123, July 30 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Have you ever worked with a motivated, ambitious and productive employee who could use some help with their leadership style? Or have you gotten this feedback yourself? This month’s newsletter explores how insight paves the way. We hope you enjoy it. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Executing Execution Part 1: Impatience   One of my clients – we’ll call her Kate – is an incredibly driven and productive manager in a well-respected non-profit in my town. In some respects, Kate is the type of employee

Issue #110, June 30 2022 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Have you been perplexed by another person’s behavior? Have you wondered what to do or how to intervene? Have you been at a loss in certain situations? In this month’s newsletter, Robin Charbit explains why you get stuck and shares a helpful yet simple strategy.  All of us at Insight Principles Our clients often ask for our take on  particular situations - “What do you think?” or “What should I do?”, etc. To be of service, we always start by trying to understand how the person is thinking about the situation. We

Issue #102, October 30 2021 Welcome to Insights and Implications! “R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Find out what it means to me.” We are all likely familiar with this song by Aretha Franklin. You might know what respect means to you, but do you know what it means to others? This month’s newsletter explains how insights about your mind can help even though everyone will have a unique perspective. Over the past couple of years, I have had conversations with leaders that would go something like this: Leader: The workforce is changing significantly and leaders are not responding well. Me: What do you mean the workforce

Issue #87, July 31 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We hope you are enjoying the summer. (Apologies to our Southern Hemisphere friends.) By now, we bet you are all seasoned veterans of online meetings. At Insight Principles, this transition was initially awkward and unwelcome. However, as Robin Charbit describes below, we adapted, and were ultimately surprised by how well our online work evolved. We continue to learn more and more each day about thriving in our new virtual reality. Please contact us if you’d like to hear more about what we're learning and doing. All of us at Insight Principles Connecting

Issue #78, February 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Can you imagine a workplace without PowerPoint? We can. While an interesting tool, the way PowerPoint is often used stifles the creative process that helps us solve our most vexing problems. Read on to learn more. All of us at Insight Principles Everybody Hates PowerPoint An article in Inc. Magazine caught my attention titled, It’s 2020. Why Are You Still Using PowerPoint? Read the article here. At Insight Principles, we hardly ever use PowerPoint. Simultaneously showing a bunch of words and diagrams on a screen while we are speaking to a group makes

Issue #70, June 2019 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Seems like many of the leaders we have been working with recently are extremely busy and mentally tired. Common sense would dictate taking a break but for whatever reason, leaders often don’t do it. Perhaps this month’s newsletter will encourage listening to that common sense. All of us at Insight Principles   Take a Break You’ve probably been physically tired. Perhaps you spent the entire day working in the garden or split a cord of wood or rode your bicycle 30 miles. We call this the “good” kind of tired. It’s the kind

Issue #68, April 2019 Welcome to Insights and Implications! This month’s newsletter addresses a common but unproductive dynamic between people who tend to be critical and those who tend to be sensitive to criticism. An understanding of the mind can soothe the tension and help us learn from one another. All of us at Insight Principles Which Camp Are You In? The son of a good friend of mine was promoted to be a people leader. Adam sought this opportunity because he liked people and predicted he would be good at helping others succeed. Adam inherited an under-performing team and he

Issue #63, November 2018 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Are certain jobs more worthy of respect? Must you like your job in order to do it well? Does your job determine your self-worth? Read this month’s newsletter as we address these interesting questions. Respectfully, All of us at Insight Principles   Is Your Job Worthy of Greatness and Respect? Recently I read an article in Forbes Magazine. (Click here for the complete article ) The author was dismayed by what she describes as a lack of respect for certain less glamorous jobs. She makes the point that all honest work is something

Issue #59, July 2018 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Last month we wrote about the limitations of listening for agreement. Our newsletter inspired one of our readers to share his insights on listening. We love getting these contributions - please keep them coming. And if you have suggestions for newsletter topics, please send them along. We also are pleased to pass along a link to a recent TEDx Talk presented by our own Ken Manning. We will write more about this in following newsletters but we wanted to get it out to all of you right away. Take a look. Happy Listening! All of