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Life Fulfillment and Purpose

Book launch! Launch party!

It’s book launch week! Tuesday, July 15th is the official publication date of Take Your Time Before Time Takes You (How to Make the Most of Every Day). It’s my eighth book as author or editor, not counting the multiple anthologies and periodicals that have published my stories, articles, and Read more

By Peter Dudley, 1 yearJuly 14, 2025 ago
Decisions

Knowing when it’s time to stop

Knowing when it’s time to stop can be hard. When are you throwing good effort into something that should have ended already? Examples: I’ve written before about action planning and quit criteria, but today I’m thinking about the feeling of being done. Not about achieving goals or meeting deliverables. Not Read more

By Peter Dudley, 1 yearJuly 7, 2025 ago
Career

Stuck in a web of bungee cords: ambivalence in decision making

Three ways to clarify your decision making when you feel like you’re stuck in a web of bungee cords pulling you in different directions.

By Peter Dudley, 2 yearsSeptember 16, 2024 ago
Career

Four Questions to answer before you start a business

If you think you want to start a business, you should start with these four questions to decide if you’re ready. Many people aren’t.

By Peter Dudley, 2 yearsAugust 19, 2024 ago
Career

3 easy actions to clarify your career path

How can you plan a career path when you don’t know where you’re going? Here are three actions you can take to get going in the right direction.

By Peter Dudley, 3 yearsJune 6, 2023 ago
Executive and Nonprofit Leadership

Why a leader’s opinion on working from home or returning to the office shouldn’t matter

Leaders often think that everyone who doesn’t agree with them is simply wrong. Sometimes this is due to the false consensus effect, and it can kill morale.

By Peter Dudley, 3 yearsMarch 22, 2023 ago
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Career

What is ENOUGH in a society built on the worship of MORE?

In a society focused on the worship of MORE, the reward for climbing one rung on the ladder of success is to be able to reach the next rung. When is it ENOUGH?

By Peter Dudley, 3 yearsFebruary 27, 2023 ago
Career

You’ve taken the courageous first steps to fulfilling (or killing) a dream… now what? How to survive the J Curve.

Taking the courageous steps to pursue a new dream, you will face and have to survive the J Curve in order to turn your dream into reality.

By Peter Dudley, 3 yearsFebruary 21, 2023 ago
Career

Is your life designed by committee? If so, claim your role as your own committee chair.

Advice from other people is always based on their own biases and experiences. Take control of your own decisions and don’t live a life designed by committee.

By Peter Dudley, 4 yearsJanuary 4, 2023 ago
Career

Embracing the middle manager’s role as ignorant speed bump

The middle manager’s role is to manage both up and down the org chart. This means questioning authority and speaking truth to power, as well as managing staff.

By Peter Dudley, 4 yearsDecember 12, 2022 ago

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