by Doris Saouma | Dec 8, 2020 | Business, Leadership, Performance, Teams
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times . . . The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile” (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990)....
by Doris Saouma | Dec 8, 2020 | Business, Conflict, Leadership, Teams
On the backdrop of this pandemic, 3 of my married friends are going through a divorce, and 2 of my clients are looking for a new job. When I heard their stories, the patterns were shockingly similar: if we are skillful at noticing these patterns, the undesired...
by Doris Saouma | Jul 6, 2020 | Business, Leadership, Teams
I woke up today expecting to feel excited about the day off I had planned for myself two months ago, yet somehow, that feeling was absent. I could have blamed the grey weather in Zurich, but I viscerally felt it was a much deeper reason. I come from Lebanon, a country...
by Doris Saouma | Mar 27, 2020 | Business, Leadership, Teams
I remember back in 2006, at the end of a job interview for a risk management position at a bank, the CEO asking me the following question, jokingly: what is the only investment that is guaranteed never to lose? I didn’t have a shrewd answer immediately, so he...
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