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Marie Kondo, Work, and Letting Go 

  • Post author:Kim LaFever
  • Post published:February 21, 2022
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I’d been absent from the air waves for a couple months. Why? Mainly because of one key decision in 2018: to take the Portland Underground Graduate School class, Financial Freedom 101 (FF101).FF101 blew so many things out of the water for us in…

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Lessons from the Shark Tank About Work

  • Post author:Kim LaFever
  • Post published:February 21, 2022
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Several years ago while visiting my mom, I stopped by to find her watching "Shark Tank," a TV show where entrepreneurs seek investments from wealthy "sharks" to help them take their business to a new, and sometimes substantial level. Back then, my mom was…

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Truths About Organizational Change

  • Post author:Kim LaFever
  • Post published:February 21, 2022
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Raise your hand (or drop me an email) if you love being told what to do! I’m guessing there aren’t a lot of hands raised out there nor will I get a lot of emails from most of you.  …

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DIY: Live the Life You Love with a Career Map

  • Post author:Kim LaFever
  • Post published:August 13, 2017
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DIY: Live the Life You Love with a Career Map The job market has been HOT the last year or so and yet many people feel edgy, like we are living in uncertain times. Maybe it's the summer heat or…

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Power to the People – It’s Not A Generational Gap

  • Post author:Kim LaFever
  • Post published:August 13, 2017
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Power to the People - It's Not A Generational Gap “To Give Anything Less Than Your Best is to Sacrifice the Gift.” – Steve Prefontaine Last month we talked about Millennials in the workplace and debunked a few myths.  I…

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The Rise of Millennials at Work

  • Post author:Kim LaFever
  • Post published:August 13, 2017
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Recently I went to Vegas to speak at an HR Strategy a conference. I was so zero chill about this trip because: Well, it’s Vegas of course, YOLO (You Only Live Once) If I hadn’t accepted the gig it would have…

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A Hero’s Journey at Work

  • Post author:Kim LaFever
  • Post published:September 15, 2015
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Joseph Campbell once said, “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”  Reading a quote like that takes me to a mythical place,  somewhere lofty,  and expansive, where I wonder what…

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The $300,000 Popsicle Test

  • Post author:Kim LaFever
  • Post published:August 20, 2015
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Milk-Bones. Frozen fruit pops. Italian soda. Gluten-free crackers. That's all it took for me to “misplace” my husband at the supermarket recently. Shopping doesn't tend to be a team sport for us. But one day after golf recently we stopped by the store for a few…

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Need a Quick Change? Ask a Superhero.

  • Post author:Kim LaFever
  • Post published:May 12, 2015
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What’s the one thing all superheroes seem to have in common? They go from being average, vulnerable, and maybe even a little nerdy, to being superheroes in a matter of seconds.  The next time you need to make a…

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The Art of Reinvention

  • Post author:Kim LaFever
  • Post published:April 9, 2015
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It’s been 3 years since I started Positive Disruption and in that time there’s been a lot of reinvention. Like reinvention from my cushy corporate life to the nail-biting that can sometimes come along with starting up a business. There’s…

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