Author: Matt Auron

Are you a manager, a coach, or both?

It always strikes me how quickly the people I coach forget the power they have as managers and executives. Managers have the power to change the world. They literally hold people’s lives in their hands. It’s not just hyperbole. I’ll

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Grow your orbit with one eye to the past

It is not easy, or common, to talk  about our past and how it has influenced how we move in the world. Especially in business. Therapy and dipping into our history to see the modes of being we have picked

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Evolution is everywhere

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” ― Jalaluddin Rumi We are all plants stretching towards the sun. Life clings to life, even in the harshest environments. There is an impulse

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Gratitude is rocket fuel for human potential

My fiftieth year had come and gone, I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden

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Five ways you can shape your company’s culture

Leaders create culture. Understanding this principle adds a dimension to leadership that many don’t expect or even care to focus on in the midst of a rapid scale of a business or hitting a financial metric. But as many parents

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Five Things You Should Do As You Scale To Avoid Losing Your Company’s Soul

One of the times that most start-ups begin to falter is when they begin to rapidly scale. Typically once they’ve closed a B round of funding, teams grow and founders and early stage companies sometimes identify this as chaotic or

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Culture Isn’t Just Office Perks

Many of the most iconic and admired companies today are known as much for their culture as they are for their product or experience. Hollywood made a movie made starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson featuring Google’s culture. Zappos has

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The Shadow Side of Organizational Culture

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” — C.G. Jung Organizational culture is a hot topic. It is becoming a part of the brand of many companies and differentiating them as employers, and

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