I recently read in the LA Times that thirty-three years after being classified as an endangered species, the El Segundo blue butterfly, long since having left its disrupted habitat, is now back.  It’s population is growing, despite noise and pollution, in the sandy dunes next to the Los Angeles airport.  Perhaps it learned something about

Interruptions and Adaptability—

I was recently considered for coaching work in a consulting firm. The firm’s clients were all attorneys and I had some early experience working for and later coaching attorneys.  After a a new Nordstrom suit purchased for my interview, a preliminary interview, and three weeks of deliberation, the firm decided to consider two attorney candidates who also coach.  Perhaps a better fit for their needs, yet if their job role definition had been clear in the beginning, I would not have pursued this offer.  Despite this annoyance, I drew on my familiarity with

Interruptions and Adaptability—

There are times like these when your normal course of action is interrupted to pursue an opportunity, only to come out the other end realizing that it simply isn’t going to happen or, in my case, the direction I was pursuing wasn’t going to take me where I wanted to go anyway.  Of course it’s easier if you can figure this out in advance of taking unnecessary steps, but it’s not always easy to do that.

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