Environment Archives - Kareem Powell

Lessons from Exile #74: Thank Your Team

As I’ve mentioned before, no one gets anywhere by themselves. If you are a leader, then anything you’ve managed to […]

I’ve written a bit about how actions reveal far more than words do. Just because someone sanitizes his speech and […]

No one wakes up one day and decides “Ah… Yes… Today is the day I’m going to manipulate, gaslight, and […]

Over the course of my adult life as a musician, I’ve done: musical theatre, smooth jazz, jazz combos, big band […]

I touched on this with “Be Unavailable.” Always being accommodating teaches people – particularly your employer – that your time […]

As I’ve mentioned in an earlier installment, no one achieves success completely on their own. Somewhere down the line, someone […]

There’s this romantic fantasy of an ideal where everyone gets along swimmingly, everyone always agrees on everything, the truth is […]

Consider some of the great partnerships: Rodgers and Hammerstein. Key and Peele. Outkast. TLC. When you work with someone who […]

Shit happens. That was already one of my entries, but there are just some concepts that cannot be overemphasized. Everything […]

There’s nothing wrong with being open-minded or open to suggestions. One of the choices I made early on was to […]