“Working with your opposite style is always the best combination! If you are an optimist, you’d do better to partner with a pessimist. And the same goes for couples!” 

Where to begin… 

The skeptic in me: Should I start by challenging the notion that partnering with a pessimist would be solely and unequivocally beneficial for an optimist? And vice versa.

Or,

The hot-head in me: Should I start by demolishing the established comparison between Business and Love here?
Believe me, I’ve tested the glass-half-empty boyfriend, and I would sooner go to hell (i.e., remain single forever).

Now, that said ; 

-          I agree that a marriage of differences brings us to farther places than when we are both wired, thinking, and acting the same way. No doubt about that.

 

-          I also concede that having a...

Life is amusing.
Suddenly, in the same week, two big projects popped up in my life.

- Project A is creating a new ski resort with a whole innovative customer experience.

- Project B is working to strengthen women in sales positions.

I love new adventures. I love challenges even more.
So when their team leaders came to me and asked me to join their advisory committee alongside brilliant experts, I said Yes, to both of them!

Now, to be transparent;

- Project A connects me to my passion of skiing, to my former student job as a ski trainer, and to the beautiful mountains where I grew up.

- Project B doesn’t trigger any particular excitement in me - on paper. I am not an expert in sales, and neither am I particularly attracted to gender issues and sorority dynamics.

Yet, a month later, I quit project A.

What happened?

The WHAT (about) is not enough.

Over the first month participating in those two projects, I experienced a one of a kind ultimate contrast!
Surprisingly, I was...

Regularly, my wonderful clients surface profound questions that sound like Shakespearean quandaries. Deep, existential thoughts punctuated with a desperate question mark.
I can feel their urgency to get my answer right away on the phone.

This morning, 8 am: How do I know how far I have to go to adapt myself to a certain situation?
Excellent question, isn’t it?
To adapt to others or not to adapt, that is the question.
It is always followed right away by another, more implicit one: Does it mean I am not flexible or agile enough if I don't do so?
Another great point.

These questions are not incidental, as they take place in our daily professional and personal dramas. I’m certain you’ve already asked them of yourself.
Actually, what is your current issue that makes you wonder if adapting and adjusting yourself is the required move? There must be one. There is always one.
Take a second and bring it now into your mind to make the most of what I’m about to share...