One of the methods that the eGuide team uses to set goals is V2MOM, a framework originally created by Founder and CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff that helps businesses plan out their goals, strategies, and approaches for seeing their achievements through. V2MOM stands for: Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, Measures

Take a moment to think about a few of the contracts that make up your life. When you wake up in the morning, do you look at your email or social media?

“She would like the baby brought to her room.” The nurse said as she entered the room. My eyes turned to the bassinet, looking at the little baby boy swaddled in a muslin blanket -- tiny little elephants weaving around him and a baby blue knit beanie on his head. This boy was meant to be our son and entered the world just over 24 hours earlier.

While reading Suzanne Collins’ latest addition to the Hunger Games saga, I couldn’t help drawing parallels to our own current state of affairs, what it means to be a leader, and the choices we all are going to make in the coming month. How chaos, control, and contract all weave their way in and out of our daily lives, and what that means for leadership and power.

“You are a bully,” I remember saying. “Tell me in what professional setting is it ever appropriate to throw a pen at someone?” The incident I was referencing, was an event with the Chief Executive “Bully” that happened nearly four years earlier. I had carried that resentment, fresh as the day it happened, around with me for all that time, and it didn’t come to surface until I was resigning. Even now, it’s a challenge to identify the emotions I felt as I was quitting.