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This article describes the possible symptoms that may occur with parathyroid cancer. Cancer of the parathyroids is quite rare. Over active parathyroid glands is more common and affects about 1/1000 people in the United States. Parathyroid cancer occurs in about 1/1,000,000-5,000,000 people.
The primary function of the parathyroid glands is to assist with calcium regulation. Calcium is an important element in the body that helps control bone health, muscle function, nerve signal transmission and cell signaling. The parathyroid gland has a feedback mechanism that functions like a thermostat. When the calcium level gets low the gland makes more hormones to increase the levels. When the calcium level returns to normal the hormone production decreases. The opposite effect would occur if the calcium level was too high. High calcium in the blood is also known as hypercalcemia. (The prefix "hyper" meaning elevated, "calc" referring to calcium, and the suffix "-emia" meaning of the blood.)
The parathyroid hormone regulates calcium by increasing absorption from the intestine of dietary calcium, regulating clearance of the kidney of blood calcium and controls release and storage of calcium in bones. A normal calcium level as measured in the blood is about 9-10 mg/dL. Most of this calcium is not dissolved or "free" in the blood, but bound to transport proteins like albumin. Someone who is malnourished and has abnormal protein levels will thus have less measured calcium in the blood.
Symptoms of parathyroid cancer occur in two major forms. The first type of symptom relates to the overproduction of parathyroid hormone and the subsequent effects this causes. The second type of symptom associated with parathyroid cancer relates to growth of the tumor into adjacent areas in the neck causing local problems.
The most common problem that parathyroid cancer causes that generally leads to its discovery is severe elevations in the calcium levels. Symptoms (and associated findings) of very high calcium include:
- Severe weakness
- Lethargy
- Confusion or altered mental status
- Vomiting
- Nausea
- Abdominal pain
- Pancreatitis
- Stomach Ulcers
- High blood pressure
- Bone Pain
- Depression
- Headache
- Frequent urination
- Poor muscle tone (delayed deep tendon reflexes)
Other problems that would be found with further studies would include wide and bizarre waveforms on an electrocardiogram. Very high serum calcium is frequently associated with parathyroid cancer but there are other causes of high blood calcium. A partial list of common causes of hypercalcemia includes:
- Overactive parathyroid glands (not cancer, also known as primary hyperparathyroidism)
- Parathyroid cancer
- Excess vitamin D intake
- Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Tumors of the bones or those that spread to the bone
- Medications side effects (many)
When hypercalcemia is from parathyroid cancer it will generally be greatly elevated. The above symptoms from hypercalcemia may occur in different levels or combinations.
Other symptoms from parathyroid cancer include those caused by growth of the tumor. A normal parathyroid gland is not palpable. An overactive parathyroid gland may be palpable but will be soft and smooth like a soft grape. A parathyroid gland with cancer in it will feel like a hard rock or pebble within the neck. As the gland enlarges it will seem fixed to the area and palpation would not be able to "wiggle" it around (technically known as ballottement). Spread to lymph nodes in that area of the neck may even cause adjacent firm nodules as well.
Sometimes the symptoms of parathyroid cancer are not as dramatic. The most classic person would be an older man with a firm nodule in the neck and severe weakness, confusion and dehydration. The only symptom may be more subtle such as pain and blood in the urine. High calcium levels in the blood lead to crystals of calcium forming in the urine and kidney stones. These stones are very painful to the kidney and subsequent connecting passages (i.e. ureters, bladder, urethra). The stones abrade the lining of the ureters or bladder and can cause blood to be seen in the urine and painful urination.
A "spontaneous" fracture may be the initial symptom as well. For example, an older woman with parathyroid cancer sits down on a hard bench and suddenly has severe pain in the lower back from a fractured vertebra. The weakness of the bones occurs as parathyroid hormone continuously "tells" the bone to release calcium and undergo breakdown processes despite a normal-high blood calcium level. In this way it can be understood that both the secretion of the hormone is dysfunctional as well as the calcium thermostat on the gland.
When these key symptoms appear, the essential step is measurement of the blood calcium levels. When the calcium level is found to be very high, irrespective of the cause, the initial therapy is to lower the calcium level to safe levels. This can be done by a variety of treatments and requires hospitalization and careful monitoring. After this step, some type of imaging test (like an x-ray or ultrasound) is done to look for an enlarged gland if it cannot be palpated. The definitive treatment for parathyroid cancer involves removing the gland with the cancer. This may involve just the gland or possibly including the thyroid and part of that side of the neck muscle and/or lymph nodes.
- Townsend Jr, CM; Beauchamp RD; Evers BM; Mattox KL. (2008) Townsend: Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, 18th ed. Chapter 37. New York, NY: Saunders.
- Cameron JL; Cameron AM. (2010) Cameron: Current Surgical Therapy, 10th ed. Chapter 610. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders
- Incidence and prognosis of parathyroid gland carcinoma: A population-based study in The Netherlands estimating the preoperative diagnosis. Schaapveld M, Jorna FH, Aben KK, Haak HR, Plukker JT, Links TP. Am J Surg. 2011 Aug 20. PMID: 21861982
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After it was revealed inserting the S Pen stylus on the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 backwards would permanently damage the phone, Samsung responded by sticking a warning label on the packaging, reports Tech Times. The warning is printed on the plastic screen protector that protects the screen in the packaging.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. – Whenever the University of Chicago women's basketball team needed a big play on Friday evening, Miranda Burt was there to provide it. The freshman guard hit three-pointers, snagged steals and made clutch free throws at the most opportune times. Burt's spark proved the difference as UChicago won its first round NCAA playoff game 67-63 over Wartburg College.
The Maroons improved their record to 19-7 and advance to the second round of the NCAA Division III Championship to face No. 2-ranked University of St. Thomas (28-0). The No. 8-ranked Knights ended their season at 25-3.
UChicago is making its sixth NCAA appearance and first since 2012. Wartburg was back in the tournament after reaching the national semifinals last year. In the first quarter, the Maroons took over in impressive fashion. After falling behind 4-0, they proceeded to rip off a 16-3 run that featured scoring from numerous sources. Freshman forward Taylor Lake tallied five points and senior forward Britta Nordstrom had four points in that stretch.
Wartburg steadily chopped into the deficit at the end of the first quarter and start of the second. The Knights edged to within five points at 24-19 until Burt swished a three-pointer for the Maroons. The freshman guard caught fire in the first half. After missing her first shot of the game, Burt hit her next six, including five three-pointers for a total of 17 points.
UChicago's hectic defensive style paid dividends and turned the Knights over 16 times in the half. The Maroons tallied 16 points off those turnovers. Back-to-back threes by Burt and sophomore guard Jamie Kockenmeister put the team up 10 points. UChicago eventually headed into the halftime break with a 42-34 lead. The Maroons shot 42.4 percent in the first half compared to 54.4 percent by Wartburg.
The third quarter turned into an offensive slog for UChicago. The Maroons were limited to three points over the last six minutes of the period, and Wartburg inched ever closer, eventually getting to within one point at 50-49 early in the fourth quarter.
Nordstrom and sophomore forward Olariche Obi provided some breathing room with a layup and two free throws, respectively. Obi's work on the boards paid off with an offensive put back off a miss at 56-53. However, Wartburg charged back and scored on three-straight trips down the floor to take a slim 59-58 lead.
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With less than 30 seconds left and trailing by two points, the Knights got two looks at the basket. But Obi blocked the initial shot and the follow-up three was rebounded by Burt. After getting immediately fouled, Burt calmly deposited both free throws through the cylinder to make it a four-point lead (65-61).
Wartburg drew a foul and made two free throws of their own with seven seconds left. This time, junior guard Elizabeth Nye came up clutch after being immediately fouled off the inbounds pass. Nye made both from the line to account for the final 67-63 score. The Knights were unable to score on their final possession and Burt fittingly came down with the ball to end the game.
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Verification Perspectives Podcast Hosted by Lauro Rizzatti Begins Airing
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Attracting investments into its recently opened-up economy is a clear priority of Myanmar's tax regime, with a slew of tax incentives for foreign investors. But that is tempered by a need to collect more tax revenues - less for the government to spend on developing public infrastructure creates roadblocks to Myanmar's economic development too.
Despite being one of the fastest growing economies in Asia, Myanmar's tax revenue collection has been one of the lowest. Its revenues amount to 7.5 per cent of GDP, compared to Thailand's 16 per cent and Cambodia's 14 per cent.
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Corporate Tax: 25% standard rate
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Companies listed on Yangon's stock exchange benefit from a reduced rate of 20 per cent on their corporate income.
For those importing goods into Myanmar, there is a 2 per cent advance corporate income tax levied on imports. This can be credited against the corporate income tax the importer needs to pay at the end of the year.
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It is levied as a turnover tax on a wide range of goods and services traded, produced or rendered in Myanmar, as well as on imported goods. For most goods and services, the rate of commercial tax imposed is 5 per cent, but rates range from 0 to 8 per cent.
There are exceptions. 30 types of services are exempt from commercial tax, including life insurance, banking and financial services, microfinance, public transportation and publishing services. And no commercial tax is imposed if a company's proceeds are not more than 50 million Myanmar kyats.
Commercial tax is also zero-rated on all exports, except for electricity (8 per cent) and crude oil (5 per cent).
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Dividends: Not taxed
Interest: Interest paid to residents is not taxed. Interest paid to non-residents is subject to withholding tax of 15 per cent.
Royalties: Royalties paid to residents are subject to withholding tax of 10 per cent, while royalties paid to non-residents are taxed 15 per cent.
Personal Tax: 25% top marginal rate
Myanmar has a progressive schedule of personal income tax rates which range from 0 per cent to 25 per cent. The top marginal rate of 25 per cent applies to chargeable income above 30 million Myanmar kyat.
This schedule applies to all tax residents: this includes all Myanmar citizens and foreigners who live in Myanmar for at least 183 days during the year of assessment. The salaried income of Myanmese working abroad is tax-exempt, but other sources of income are taxable.
Non-resident foreigners are subject to tax on their Myanmar-source income at rates ranging from 0 per cent to 25 per cent too.
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- A tax exemption for the production of goods and services, and for reinvested profits
- 50 per cent tax relief for export profits
- Various deductions and exemptions from customs duty and domestic taxes on imported materials, machinery and equipment
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Kirk Douglas has doubled his Los Angeles Skid Row pledge for homeless women to $10 million — surprising even his wife, for whom the effort is named.
Kirk and Anne Douglas made the initial $5 million pledge in July for continued support of the Anne Douglas Center for Women at the Los Angeles Mission, which opened two decades ago on Valentine's Day.
The 95-year-old actor also gave his wife an award Wednesday for her work at the shelter.
Kirk Douglas says his wife told him she was determined to do something for her country when they married 57 years ago and he says she has never stopped.


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1st. Sgt. Michael Ascott is thankful for a Fort Benning soldier who ran through woods and jumped fences in the dark to warn his family of a fire at their Smiths Station, Ala., home.
Ascott, a member of the 362nd Engineer Company, 11th Engineer Battalion, had never met Spc. Pristen Perez of the 203 Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team before the 9:30 p.m. fire ignited Ascott's garage on Dec. 14. Quick thinking by Perez gave Ascott time to get his family outside and battle the fire until the Smiths Station Volunteer Fire Department arrived.
"The most I would have expected was people to pick up the phone and dial 911," Ascott said Thursday. "Really, if someone had just done that my house would have burned down. I'm incredibly grateful that his house is 150 yards on the other side of the woods from mine."
Perez said he did what he would expect someone to do for him. "Honestly, I feel like if I was in that situation, I'd want them to react the same way I did," Perez said.
Perez said he and his wife were watching TV when he saw flames in the house from his back yard.
"At the time I saw a flame, my first instinct was somebody was having a barnfire, but once I went outside, I saw it was on fire," he said. "I grabbed my cell phone and flashlight. I began jumping fences until I made it to the house."
Perez banged on the first door he found as flames were shooting from the garage.
Ascott was almost passed out watching TV on the couch while his son, Johnathan, was in bed and his wife Rachel was getting ready for bed. That's when he heard banging in the back of the house.
"My first thought was it was coming out of the garage so I opened the garage," Ascott said.
Finding the garage full of smoke, Ascott went around to the other side of the house and found Perez who was letting them know the house was on fire.
"We were lucky," Ascott said. "We didn't know anything was going on until he came and warned us. If he didn't let us know when he did, it would have gotten into the house and we probably would have lost the whole house."
Ascott ran into the house and found two fire extinguishers to battle the blaze in the garage. Perez helped Ascott's wife and son get out of the house, then grabbed a garden hose to control the fire until firefighters arrived.
"It didn't take long once I got to house, got everybody out and started working on the fire," Perez said. "The fire department came very fast. They took care of it from there."
A fire investigator is fairly certain the culprits in the fire are squirrels. They apparently had built a nest around some security lighting on the back of the garage, Ascott said.
Ascott credits Perez with saving their home. "There is no way for me to thank him enough," he said.
The ending couldn't have been better for Perez. "I'm just glad everybody was OK," he said.


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Some colors just make me happy. Especially when they're part of such a super sweet, lovely wedding as was Kerry's and Alex's this last September. Kerry's smile struck me right away at our first consultation. It made perfect sense that someone with her inner sunshine would choose the vibrant, cheerful color palette that she and Alex did for their wedding aboard the MV Skansonia.
We filled the boat with late summer flowers in orange, white, and green tones: dahlias, zinnias, lilies, amaranthus, Queen Anne's lace, and long-reaching bittersweet branches for the altar arch. Taylor'd Events brought the nautical touch to the tables with navy napkins to coordinate with the attendant gowns — as well as did a gazillion other things that day! I loved the contrast of the bright flowers against the dark navy. Just goes to show that color theory is alive and well (you know, orange being the compliment of blue and all that…)
Angela and Evan's gorgeous images are testimony to how thoughtful Kerry was about the floral plan. Knowing that Alex would be in a full gown and carrying flowers (while her own outfit was more streamlined and without flowers), she wisely suggested that our asymmetrical floral design sit on the left corner of the altar arch, opposite her bride. It was all about balance. And shouldn't it always be?
Congratulations, Kerry and Alex! Here's to many more years of balance and beauty in your lives!


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The holiday gift-giving season is upon us once again. For many of us, that means stress. What gift can we give to the people we care about that actually means something? Why do the holidays have to be so expensive after we buy gifts for everyone on our Christmas list? Then, on Christmas Day, we have to find polite things to say about the unwanted gifts we get and we find ourselves with a bunch of additional stuff to take care of whether we like it or not.
All of these problems can be solved by one simple change in your perspective about gift-giving this year: give experiences instead of things.
What do I mean by this? Instead of giving a material gift that would require you to spend money on something you're unsure they'll like and them receiving something that they'll have to now take responsiblity for, give them something that isn't material.
Six Ideas for "Experience" Gifts
Here are six quick ideas to get you started, but there are hundreds more just like it if you let your creativity go.
1. For a child:
Give a field trip. This could be a trip to a zoo, to a kid-friendly science center (like the wonderful one in Des Moines, Iowa), a wilderness hike, or to a baseball game. You'll handle all the logistics of the trip for them.
2. For a food lover:
Offer a home-cooked version of a meal they've longed for. Try making them something challenging like coq au vin or beef bourguignon. Get out your fine china and linens for this dinner, too – make it something special. It could be a romantic gift for a food-loving couple.
3. For an art lover:
Plan a trip with them to the art museum of their choice later in the year. Buy the ticket and handle the transportation yourself.
4. For a spouse:
Pledge to do the dishes for a year – or give them a few weekends where they can do whatever they want (with or without you).
5. For a gamer:
Give them some invitations that allow them to choose a game to play with you. This is a great way to understand someone's hobby better (and perhaps find it interesting and exciting yourself).
6. For a parent:
Give a free night of babysitting. To them, this means an evening doing whatever they'd most enjoy doing without having to worry at all about their children.
Barter for Services
If you have some good ideas for experiences but don't have the cash, look into a barter with the person that could provide that service. For example, you might be willing to work 40 hours at a museum or a zoo for a certain number of tickets. Perhaps you could provide IT services at a spa in exchange for some gift certificates there. Many businesses are quite willing to offer credit in exchange for your skills and/or your time. Take advantage of that.
The Presentation
Many people balk at such gifts because they're unsure how to present it. With a home printer and some time, you can create an elegant presentation of any gift.
1. Spend a little on a decent stationery set
You can use this for many such gifts over the long haul. Look for something tasteful and simple that doesn't necessarily have to be holiday-oriented.
2. Use a straightforward layout in your word processer
There are thousands of templates for Word, most of which are compatible with most word processing programs out there.
3. Fill out the document with the details of the gift
Print it on the best printer you have access to, and also print the envelope with the recipient's name on it in an elegant font.
4. Include some visuals within the envelope
A brochure that shows what the event is all about is perfect, as is a photograph that provides a visual reminder of what you're going to do. It can even be something as interesting as snapshots from a past event you've enjoyed together.
Why This Works
Aside from the fact that it's less expensive than giving traditional material gifts, giving experiences works for three reasons.
1. It doesn't give a material item that the other person will have to deal with
It's not going to wind up needing maintenance or taking up storage space in their home or requiring a trip to customer service.
2. It will stand out in a positive way in comparison to the items they receive
When you receive several items for Christmas, something distinct like this will definitely stand out from the crowd. Most of the "experience" gifts I've ever received still stand out for me.
3. It often allows you to experience the gift together
If the gift is an event you can both participate in, it becomes a shared memory, something far beyond what a material gift can offer.
For us, unfortunately, "experience" gifts are a bit of a challenge since we don't live near many of the people we exchange gifts with. Of course, we have another solution for many of those folks for frugal, unique Christmas gifts… but that will have to wait until next week.


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Subtle and Not So Subtle Criticism
Marissa Mayer, newly appointed CEO of Yahoo, announced she was pregnant just after her appointment. Could she take on the turnaround of Yahoo and be a "good mom?" Would one or both suffer? Would she really want to return to work just after the birth? And on … Endless speculation by the media.
These questions were widely discussed and debated in the social media as well, via blogs, Twitter, Linkedin discussions, Facebook, etc. Marissa was just listed in Forbes Magazine as among "The Most Fascinating Women of 2012."
The announcement about her pregnancy stirred up sentiments about the implications for her ability to right the Yahoo ship and be a first-time mom, all at the same time. Women weighed in heavily.
Last week, I watched CNN International broadcast an interview with Marissa, and she impressed me. The CNN international newscasters had some repartee after airing the interview. The female newscaster's comment was something to the effect of, "You could tell her analogy to Vince Lombardi was rehearsed."
Is that all she could say about this young woman who has taken on a huge turnaround responsibility, is under the glare of the spot light and tremendous pressure while bringing a new child into the world? It was petty.
These are subtle/not so subtle ways that women undermine each other. Would she have made the same comment about a man? Where was the awe? This young woman has demonstrated tremendous courage by taking on such a huge responsibility and challenge, while knowing she would be under the microscope and have to endure endless criticism, second-guessing, critique and commentary about her every move.
Interestingly, the male newscaster who reported the story came to Melissa's defense and said something like, "Of course, at her level she will have had these lines rehearsed." And he was right.
I am all for critiquing, but just to find something to pick at and criticize smacks of undermining. Until this point, I had enjoyed this particular newscaster. In her defense, some of this stuff is so insidious, we don't realize we are doing it. But we are.
Women's leadership means giving a hand up, mentoring, supporting, building up … not tearing down. How are we going to make it, break the glass ceiling and help bring our world back into balance without caring about and for one another?
There are a ton of women's organizations, Linkedin groups, radio shows, TV shows, etc., who purport to all about women, yet I see some of the same undermining going on in many of these groups as well.
Perhaps first, we have to accept that this is our human condition. Maybe it's some kind of human survival urge. We need to be aware of our tendency to compete in some subtle and not so subtle ways. Then, we must commit to transcend it. Our survival, in fact is going to count on all of us pulling together, not tearing each other down. With awareness, we have the possibility to alter the way we act and interact … to gently lean into our very human tendencies rather then play them out. And evolve.
I offer this as a possibility for hope:
The next time you see one of your friends or colleagues doing well, succeeding against the odds, just sprouting new courage–find ways to support them. Tell them how amazed you are by their strength and courage. Tell them how you see them, in the best possible light. It will put fuel in their tank to carry on … and you know what? It will make you feel really good too.
Seven Leadership Pearls
Last night I went to a dinner party and a friend commented, "you look 10 years younger!" Gee, why did I wait so long to take a vacation. Frankly, it was a bit disturbing to think about what I must have looked like before I left!
For those of you who read my last post about the importance of unplugging to recharge, you'll be happy to know that I unplugged. Mostly. As a business owner, the prospect of doing this was daunting. But I did. Here's what happened and here's what I learned. Take note, for those of you haven't yet risked it.
We prepared. My social media team was in place and ready to post and promote my pre-written blogs, to send out my pre-written newsletter and to continue to send out my pre-written tweets. We changed my Facebook page photo to show that I was unplugged. Clients and colleagues were notified, and I initiated a gone fishin' email notification auto-responder for folks that sent me emails. I was ready!
How did it go?
- WiFi access was often non-existent and spotty at best, so that really helped
- With each passing day, the pull of the internet slowly subsided from a continual drum beat to a soft murmur vying for my attention
- I did use my iPhone to check emails for anything urgent and only sent out one email response for something that was time sensitive
- My traveling companion, one of the least plugged-in people I know, requested at the last minute that I bring my computer along. She was in charge of booking our lodging and wanted to book the B&B's while en route. Ugh, another temptation.
- My traveling companion wanted to get access to email frequently throughout our trip and look for internet hotspots. It took extra discipline not to succumb.
- I found myself concerned about how my Twitter connections would respond to my lack of interaction.
- I loved being unplugged and wish I could have, with confidence, let the email go too.
What were the results?
- My Twitter followers were still there and still retweeting and sending me direct messages, despite my absence and lack of response
- I was able to be fully present in my experience and delight in my travels
- I had much needed time for reflection and was able to make space for inner focus
- I really did return recharged
- I have still not caught up with all of my email and work that piled up while I was gone, but am chipping away daily.
With time to reflect on and integrate all that had transpired over the last several months–I walked away with some pearls — areas for my growth and development as a leader and that are good reminders for all of us.
My seven leadership pearls of wisdom
- Find that still point inside even though there are waves crashing around you
- Maintain your own rhythm when others travel to the beat of a different drum
- Remember that everything and everyone is a mirror to reflect aspects of yourself to you
- Prepare, then trust your team and let go
- Make sure to take your time off–and enough time to renew and replenish!
- Be present to your experiences and the world around you
- Let joy be your wellspring of energy and connection
My self-work continues … practice:
Maintain contact with that still point inside no matter what is happening around me
Keep playing my own rhythm while others play theirs'
Myth Busting: Type 2 The People Pleaser
When people describe or think of Enneagram Type 2 The People Pleaser, you often hear about a selfless person, Mother Teresa, self-sacrifice for the benefit of others … The moon to the sun … Someone who may not take care of his or her appearance while preoccupied with taking care of and pleasing others … Someone who is worn down and worn out … A doormat.
The stereotype: The nurse, the social work, the volunteer at the homeless shelter, the doctor, the nurturer …
Let's bust this myth. Type 2s can be hedonistic–pleasure seekers–something oft attributed to Type 7 The Enthusiast or Type 8 The Boss.
For Type 2, physical attractiveness is important. Type 2s are the great seducers of the Enneagram and appearance is an important part of that. Type 2s are Image Types (along with Types 3 The Achiever and 4 The Individualist).
This means they are attentive to the image they project to others by what they say, how they look and what they do. They care about what others think often more than the other Types, and are more likely to take things personally.
Type 2s and Type 3s: Type 2s can be well groomed, well coiffed and dressed to suit the situation. Type 3s are often described as the chameleons of the Enneagram, however Type 2s can share this same ability by becoming what others need them to be. They tend to be quite empathic and are able shapeshift to endear themselves to important others. Type 3s are also considered "sparkly" yet many Type 2s also fit that description. Like Type 3s, they can be social climbers–they just go about it differently and for different reasons.
Type 2s are not always behind the scenes–the power behind the throne or the moon to the sun. While this can be true, what is also true is that many Type 2s are ambitious.
Type 2s I know lead organizations, start their own for-profit and non-profit organizations, are VPs of Human Resources, sales directors, run customer service departments, manage medical staff, own and operate social media organizations and yoga studios … they perform, sing, act, paint.
Type 2s are happy to go after their dreams and make them a reality.
Type 7 The Enthusiast and Type 3 The Achiever are often described as charming and to some extent, so is Type 8 The Boss. However, Type 2s are also known to be quite charming in order to achieve their ends. They can be competitive, organized, and perfectionistic.
They take strong stands, are willful, make demands and fully assert themselves.
In other words, people don't just walk all over them. They are not doormats. But they can be.
At this point, you may be wondering, "What's the difference then, between Type 2 and Type 3 or some of the other Types if they share common behaviors?"
Great question!
IMPORTANT: What distinguishes one Type from another is not so much the behaviors we see, but why the different Types do what they do. In other words, what are their underlying motivations–what needs are they trying to get met and what are they trying to avoid?
Type 2s' strategy is to please others in order to garner appreciation and make themselves indispensable. Much of their self-worth is based upon feeling valued, needed, and appreciated by others. On a deeper level, Type 2s' self-perception is that they are unloveable. When they feel appreciated, desired, indispensable and valued, they temporarily feel lovable.
None of the Enneagram Type strategies work over time, but they give us the sense that our needs are being met, much like eating provides a temporary sensation that we are full and satisfied.
For this reason, Type 2 wants to avoid loss of connection–loss of love and their source of appreciation–and will go to great lengths to maintain those connections, often at risk of harm to themselves, and to others. This is when some of the more stereotypical behavior can show up.
Another reason Type 2 can share common behaviors with Type 3 The Achiever and Type 1 The Perfectionist is that these Types are the Wings of Type 2. The theory I find most useful and the one that maps to my observations, is that Type is a blend of the two Wings. From my book, InsideOut Enneagram: The Game-Changing Guide for Leaders:
Wings: The points on both sides of your Type are called your Wings, and they influence the ways you express the characteristics of your Type. Some people relate more to one Wing than another. Others feel that they share qualities with both Wings. You'll hear people say, "I'm a 2 with a 3 wing." In other words, Type 2 blends Type 1 and Type 3, and displays characteristics of all three Types. When we don't relate to one of our Wings, it is probably because it lives outside of our conscious awareness.
Points of connection: Look at the Enneagram symbol and you'll see that Type 2 is connected to Types 8 and 4. Under certain circumstances, Type 2 has access to many of the characteristic behaviors of these two Types.
At their best, Type 2s are warm, reliable, able to receive help graciously … They give without expectation, build powerful and durable alliances, are brilliant at making connections and building relationships and know who they are, what they stand for and that they are lovable for who they are and not what they do.
I hope this post offers a more well-rounded picture of Type 2 than the one you may have had. Remember, there is a Type 2 People Pleaser in all of us!
Please comment and let us know your own experience with Type 2s or from the perspective of Type 2. We would all benefit from your stories.
Postscript: A couple of years ago, in a conversation with Bea Chestnut, PhD Psychologist, Coach, Enneagram teacher and Type 2 … she noted that most people don't get the hedonistic side of Type 2. I thought, "she's right!" We over-focus on other aspects. It is in the spirit of illustrating a much broader picture of Type 2, that I wrote this blog. Thank you, Bea!
Check out these links for more information:
InsideOut Enneagram: The Game-Changing Guide for Leaders
Blog Posts:
- Q & A About the Enneagram
- The Three Instincts
- It's The Journey, Not the Destination
- Misunderstood: Type 4 The Individualist
- A Story of Team Dynamics
- Case Study: Type 8 & 9 (Boss and direct report)
- Use of Typing Cards for Your Relationship
- Coaching Type 2 The People Pleaser
- Enneagram Typing Using a Narrative Approach
What Would Alex Do?
Alex was a successful executive at an international bank in San Francisco, when disaster struck. In a singular and unpredictable moment, his life changed forever. A massive fire tore through his hillside community near San Francisco and engulfed and destroyed a multitude of homes. Alex's was one of them.
At that time I was working in San Francisco's financial district. On the day of the fire I bumped into Alex who happened to be my client at the time.
We were in the elevator in his office building and he was heading up to his office. I knew he lived in the area of the fire and so I asked whether his home was one of those affected. He looked at me with calm and nodded in the affirmative. "My home was completely destroyed. There's nothing left." I imagined how he must have been feeling and wondered what I would do if my feet were in his shoes.
Tight in the chest with worry, I looked him in the eyes asked "what are you going to do now?" Without missing a beat he replied, "I'm going to buy a toothbrush."
That wasn't the answer I expected.
Then I thought to myself, "I guess so." What would I do?
Back to the necessities, back to the basics.
What would you do if you lost all of your worldly possessions and your home?
Alex and I reconnected not long after and as it turned out he used this fire as an alchemical fire for his life. It burned away everything, including his sense of self-identity.
He took this as an opportunity to reconsider how he wanted to live his life moving forward. Rather than immediately rebuild and reconstruct in order to keep going "as is," Alex stopped in his tracks. He took time to reflect and reconsider.
This "disaster" gave him a chance to start anew. Scary, yes, but he saw opportunity in the disaster. Like the Phoenix, he rose from the ashes.
At a much later time in my life, I found myself in a similar position under very different circumstances. How Alex handled his tragedy informed and inspired my approach and resolve to move forward.
Within short order, Alex left his executive position at the bank and started his own business venture renovating homes. No small change. He had a new lease on life and was elated about his new career. This was an idea Alex toyed with over the years, but didn't have the will, the faith or the courage to make this change earlier.
In Section V of Little Gidding from the Four Quartets, TS Eliot offers:
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
Life is filled with continual endings and beginnings. Everything is impermanent. Circumstances can change in a blink and suddenly the life we thought we had is no more. When we hold on with a tight grip to what has been, we are doomed to suffer.
How gracefully can we let go of our attachments; to the way things are, to our things and to our self-identity? With each letting go there is an opening for something new to come in.
If you accept that change is inevitable, wouldn't you rather seek out those changes and create your life rather than waiting for the unexpected to force a change?
Be intentional and deliberate about what you want to do, how you want to be, what you want to create. Reflect on what gives juice and meaning to your work and life.
Where will you focus your time and energy?
This is your one precious life …
Just ask yourself, "what would Alex do?"
One of the reasons I love working with the Enneagram is that it helps us see the role and identity we've trapped ourselves inside of … and we have the opportunity to create ourselves anew.
The Bamboo Leader
Whether you are in a position of leadership or lead from your position, being the bamboo is critical to your ability to influence and effectively lead your team, your organization and your life.
Why? Here is what we know about bamboo and what that has to do with leadership:
Bamboo is fast growing. Are you? Are you growing your self-understanding and understanding of others and the world around you or are you convinced of your rightness and that you have nothing new to learn?
Bamboo is versatile. It can be used to make clothing, flooring, scaffolding, as food, and it has medicinal purposes. How versatile are you? Do you pop into different situations and deploy your skills and abilities equally well? Do you speak to different audiences (staff, peers, superiors) and craft your message for their frame of reference–what matters to them?
Bamboo is hollow inside. Are you open to new information? Are you open to new points of view? Or are you so filled with your own thoughts and ideas that you have no room for others?
Are you open-hearted? The center of the bamboo is considered its heart.
Bamboo is firmly rooted, yet flexible and yields to the wind. How flexible are you? Do you shift your response with agility to differing circumstances to get the best result? OR do you react habitually rather than respond to the context?
Are you able weather the storm? OR are you rigid and unyielding? Do you break easily?
Are you firmly rooted? Are you able to stay grounded, solid and directed? Or do you get excited by the new and blown off course like a tumbleweed?
Do you continually change course and direction? Are you scattered and unfocused? Do you get excited by beginnings and lack follow-through?
Bamboo is used to create boundaries. How in tact are your own boundaries? Do people walk all over you? Do you invite people in when you know they'll do harm? Do you invite feedback or accept feedback when you know that it comes from someone who has a specific agenda with you? Do you say "yes" and "no" and mean both? Do you over extend to the point of exhaustion? Do you feel used?
Or are you boundaries so rigid that you are unwilling to let people into your life and you don't let others get to know you?
Bamboo is resilient. It is resistant to most bacteria. It's a real survivor. How resilient are you? When you fail at something or something doesn't go your way, do you pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move forward? Do you learn from past failures and disappointments?
Bamboo replicates quickly. Do you share your wisdom, knowledge, experience and information so that others can grow and benefit? Or do you guard what you know out of fear that others will leapfrog you, use the information and become more successful than you? Or do you guard what you know out of fear that … ?
A Vietnamese proverb says: "When the bamboo is old, the bamboo sprouts appear" Wikipedia
Do you plan for your succession and build a strong team even if those team members may outshine you? How quickly do you replicate your own brilliance so that others may shine?
How can you be a Bamboo Leader? Here is just one important example:
Seek to understand before being understood
Listen to someone who appears to have a differing viewpoint, really listen. Sit on your verbal hands. Become curious about how this person sees the world and how s/he has arrived at her/his point of view.
Listen in at the same time you are listening out.
Notice when you find yourself disagreeing, when you want to interrupt to make a counter point, when you are saying to yourself, "What an idiot, that's ridiculous …" Gently let those voices go. Return to the part of you that is curious and intent on understanding the other.
Be a generous listener. The bamboo leader doesn't have to take another's point of view as their own, but she can bend toward the other. Generous listening can yield to a generative conversation. Imagine what could result!
This type of listening demonstrates confidence, openness, flexibility, humility and caring. It is also a sign of respect.
This type of listening builds a bridge toward the other. You can still be firmly rooted and not lose yourself. But you may find yourself changed by listening.
I am afraid to listen, because if I listen, I might understand and be changed by that understanding.- Carl Rogers
Yes, you just might be influenced to change, modify or amplify your point of view. If you are afraid of that, perhaps you are not as certain as you'd like to believe you are about your position? Perhaps you are attached to being right and to holding onto unexamined, but longstanding beliefs?
Bamboo is a great metaphor for leadership. Remember to take time for your own growth and development, to be versatile, to be firmly rooted yet yielding, to be resilient, to manage your boundaries, to be open-hearted and open to learn, and to help others grow and shine.
I hope this post was thought provoking.
Please take a moment to comment and let me know what this post stirred up in you!
#leadfromwithin Tweet Chat Revisited
- At July 10, 2012
- By Wendy Appel
- In Enneagram, Women's Leadership
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Recently, Lolly Daskal honored me with an invitation to co-host her Tweet Chat, #leadfromwithin. If you've never participated in one before, I encourage you to try it out. You'll meet great people and be able to cull out pearls.
I decided to give it a whirl and it didn't disappoint. The leadfromwithin tweet chat was one wild and thrilling ride–what we used to refer to as an E-Ticket. We all shared and learned from one another about the Enneagram. While some folks had never heard of the Enneagram, others had depth of experience.
In case you missed the Tweet Chat, you can still benefit from my responses to the questions. Below, you can read the tweets (sentences or fragments of 140 characters or less) I shared from the series of questions we explored. These are just mine, but there were many participants all responding to the same questions that created a white water rapids cascade of tweets scrolling down my computer screen. It was an adventure! The engagement and positive response was overwhelmingly positive.
Enjoy and may you find value.
What is the Enneagram?
- Holistic and dynamic system. Horizontal and Vertical movement – nine-pointed symbol
- Describes nine worldviews and associated patterns of thinking, feeling & acting
- Archetypes seen throughout history and across cultures
- A constellation of defenses / coping strategies and the best of who we are
- Points to our fears, desires, beliefs and focus of attention-what drives our life story
How is the Enneagram useful?
- Self-awareness, self-management. Better understanding of self & others
- See yourself more clearly. Uncover blind spots. Loosen the grip of ur gremlins. Grow strengths
- Helps bring your centers of intelligence into balance
- Become less reactive and more responsive when you know your triggers
- Helps us see that we are often the source of our own suffering
What are the advantages of working with the Enneagram?
- Happier. Clarity. More balanced, centered. More available to self and others
- More agile. Larger range of behaviors available. Respond to context rather than react habitually
- Most holistic system I have come across
- Helps ID compulsions so you can catch yourself before acting on them
- It is liberating. Rather than being fixed and rigid, we become free
- Taking the Enneagram journey is akin to taking the Hero's Journey
Can the Enneagram offer self-insight? If yes, how?
- Gives us a window into our subconscious
- Our subconscious drives our behavior and directs the course of our lives
- It's a navigation system for your journey through your inner landscape
- It's a journey to reclaim unknown or unacknowledged parts of self
- Points to our fears, desires, beliefs and where we focus our attention
Can you be more than one Enneagram Type?
- It's like a diamond. Each Type represents a different facet and shares aspects with the whole
- You share aspects of the two Types alongside your Type—these are your wings
- You have access to aspects of your two connecting points-the lines that connect your Type with two others
- Theory: we are just one Type, but each Type shares aspects of several other Types
- The journey is to to develop all of the other Types within you
How does the Enneagram relate to InsideOut?
- Be the change you want to lead. Change starts with me first
- Helps us stop taking things personally. We become more objective
- When I shift, my relationships with others shift
- Greater ability to engender trust and inspire by how you show up
- You invest in yourself and no one can take those golden nuggets of wisdom and insight away from you
Can the Enneagram help you be a better coach, consultant, leader, manager? If yes, how?
- Gives you the possibility to transform the way you show up as a leader
- As a leader, you'll increase your ability to influence others and to move an organization forward
- As a coach / consultant, you'll become a much more effective instrument for change
- Fabulous tool for work with clients – teams and individuals
- Lead change: Great insight into the people you work with – motivations, strengths, and challenges. What makes them tick
Does the Enneagram give us insight to our teams, clients, customers? if yes, how?
- Understand key drivers of others. What makes them tick
- More insight and compassion for others
- Understand how to work more effectively with others
- Understand how to better support and motivate others
- Points to key levers of change for self and others
How does the Enneagram help us leadfromwithin?
- When we shift, we can shift the world
- Change starts with each of us
- What we enact in our outer world affects us and vice-versa
- Improved relationship with self = improved relationship with others
- Connect to your source of power, move from your center, lead with agility
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself ~ Rumi
I invite you to add to these nuggets of information. Please join the conversation.
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Will More Women Leaders Change Our World For the Better?
- At May 01, 2012
- By wendy
- In Leadership, Women's Leadership
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Imagine a system that was designed jointly by men and women. What would that be like?
An article published in The Observer by Tim Adams titled: from. Viatmins thinner? To It are serious decided covered payday loan leaving the estimated manageable.
multiple changes to investments, their annual returns were, on average, a full percentage point below those of women who invested the family finances, and nearly half as much again inferior to single women."
"A more recent study of 2.7 million personal investors found that during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, men were much more likely than women to sell any shares they owned at stock market lows. Male investors, as a group, appeared to be overconfident, the author of this study suggested.
'There's been a lot of academic research suggesting that men think they know what they're doing, even when they really don't know what they're doing.'
A fact that will come as a surprise to few of us. Men, it seemed, typically believed they could make sense of every piece of short-term financial news. Women, never embarrassed to ask directions, were on the whole far more likely to acknowledge when they didn't know something. As a consequence, women shifted their positions far less frequently, and made significantly more money as a result."
"Only 5.5% of executive directors in FTSE 100 companies are women (yet evidence shows that companies with women leaders have a 35% higher return on equity, and companies with more than three women on their corporate board have an 80% higher return on equity)."
In addition to the points made above, other key points I drew from the article:
- In order to create culture change, there needs to be at least 30% representation by women
- Without a minimum of 30% representation, women will try to be surrogate men
- Above it (30%), the subtle differences produced by gender might begin to influence the way decisions are made
- Humans are the only animals that can delay gratification, a function of the prefrontal cortex
- However, the prefrontal cortex only matures after the age of 30, and later in men than women. Before that, we are more likely to seek immediate gratification
- There needs to be greater representation in Investment Banking (both in leadership position and traders) by mature male brains (my words) in addition to women
- More research needs to be done in this area (neuroeconomics)
"Jo Herbert told me at his lab in Cambridge: 'What is clear is that there are neurological differences between the sexes. Women, in very general terms, are less competitive, and less concerned with the status of being successful. If you want to make women more present, you have to remember two things: the world they are coming into is a man-made world. The financial world. So, either they become surrogate men… or you change the world.' "
Personally, I prefer we change the world. Attempting to return to the status quo has been the response to the 2008 crisis–and all evidence suggests it's not working.
Jo Herbert points to a question that has been vexing me for a long time and comes from something I learned in the early years of my career: every system is perfectly designed to achieve the results it gets.
Ergo, if our systems (financial, economic, political, organizations, etc.) are designed by men, is it any wonder that woman are still trying to say, be, act in ways that a man can hear and respect–in other words, we are trying to adjust our style and approach to fit in to a system that was never designed by us, for us or with our contribution? Is it any wonder women act like surrogate men? We either borg, we get spit out of the system or choose to leave to save our souls.
And you? Can you you imagine a system that was designed jointly by men and women. What would that look like?


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This is extracted from the Github issue created to discuss the approach with my team. Please bear with me if I refer to something that wasn't mentioned in the text.
What is Immutable CSS?
It's a set of tiny classes that don't change. You have a set of predefined small classes that you reuse everywhere. They are mostly one-liners with clear semantics. And you don't write new CSS until it's absolutely needed.
Lets pretend that we need to build a menu that changes background for each client.
Consider the following example. The semantics is easy to remember:
m —
p — padding.

.mb1 { margin-bottom: x } - adds bottom spacing
.p1 { padding: x } - adds padding
1 in class name means 'single spacing'. And you don't use pixels or any
magic numbers. The spacing is based on the font size.
There are more utility classes like these and HTML tags are pre-styled so you can just use them as is.
Sales pitch
The claim is that 90% of CSS you don't have to write at all. And instead of having tons of files and selectors one can add a bit more verbose-ish class names that are explicitly readable when you open the code.
After that styling the transparent menu is trivial:
.menu { background-color: #xxx }
But CSS Modules…?
Everybody seem to have high hopes for CSS modules. Let's clear this up. I am not opposed to idea and they are great. However I would argue that CSS modules is a file organization concept mostly. As everything is compiled into a big pile of CSS in the browser.
You're not defining colors and fonts in each module, so they are not that independent. You have some base CSS anyway.
So in the case above the Menu CSS Module would contain a single line -
background-color. Everything else is build using immutable css classes from
the BASE.
Show me!
Sure. Let's take a random CSS Module from one of the pulls:
.type {
width: 70%;
composes: m-input-container from './../../../../form/input-container.css'
.type__select {
composes: m-input from './../../../../form/input.css'
Looks like it should power this kind of HTML:
So you see this in your code, and to get the idea of what is going on you open
the module, then you follow the
../../.. chain to find out that
is something like
margin-bottom: 10px and before you know it — your whole codebase
looks like this.
In addition to the scss mess already in place. It's just a different form of
extend. With inheritance, specificity and the like. Just a different
file format.
Compare to the following piece of CSS:
Wait, what? No CSS? Yes. You see the basic HTML tags like
<select> don't need to
carry any classes. You just pre-style them once. How many variation of
<select> or
<input> you need anyway?
.type that seems to be a some form of container I just put
in HTML.
width: 70% is a magic number. It seems to me that it can be replaced
.col-8 given 12-column grid.
So in HTML it will be something like:
And no CSS.
So it that another CSS framework?
Nope, just a library. As they say - you call the library, framework calls you.
In fact it's a set of css modules:
forms, etc. A dozen
one-liners each that can be reused everywhere.
I made a full circle before adopting this technique exclusively. After working with CSS, SCSS and now SASS while using Bootstrap, Foundation, various grid systems, Neat, Bourbon and what else there is.
But how can we use it, we already using Whatever?
The approach I preach to have a library of atomic, immutable small classes that can be combined for layout purposes. And top it off with smart reset for HTML elements. So all inputs, buttons and whatnot looks fine as is.
You only describe some specific behaviour in CSS you write. The basic styling and positioning is done with the base classes.
Do we have to change something?
Start with adding small one-liners. Here are for example three one-line clases for the menu. When you decide you need more you can continue.
Here is what the HTML could look like (Slim/Jade)
.menu | Sets Colors, nothing else. The only class that needs to be defined in CSS
.container | Sets max-width for the inner container
.sm-show.left.mr2 | Show on small screens and upwards, float left, double spacing to the right
img src="logo.png"
.dropdown | Dropdown wrapper, on hover show .dropdown-hidden
.btn Purchasing | Button-like look (transparent). Add hover effect that is font-color dependent
.dropdown-hidden | Container for Submenu
a.btn | Submenu itself
So the only CSS one has to write to hydrate the menu with some dynamic style (module or not):
.menu {
background-color: #xxx
color: #xxx
If you don't need anything dynamic, just replace
.menu with
And that removes CSS completely.
.btn class applies transparent button look by default. It inherits font and
hover color from text so it works with any kind of stuff.
<button> HTML tag or
.button class on the other hand is pre-styled as a
fully-blown button with colored background (it is actually inherited from
What if we don't like it?
This is the best part, each module is like 10-20 lines long. Look at the filesizes in the following section. You can easily replace or recreate parts you don't like. It's all built from CSS modules by the way.
Since I have adopted this approach I almost stopped writing css and it's really easy to work with the projects now when I don't have to edit multiple files. Another side effect is when you open the view you can read what it is going to look like. Kind of like in the Matrix movie.
For example the whole CSS for this agency website is less then 10Kb in size. And people think this is Bootstrap.
I'd love to show more examples, production code or answer questions. Here are some links to digest meanwhile:
- Gravitons — A base set of simple utilities to start with
- BASSCSS — The actual library I am suggestion to use
- BASSCSS-FIX — Some things I wasn't content with
- ReBASS — BASSCSS-based React componets (
- Tachyons — Another tiny library with similar ideas
- Solid — Buzzfeed implementation
This approach really shines with templating engines that use terse indented syntax. So if you are still on the fence but willing to try it and like Slim I made boilerplate to demo some of the ideas.
Usage is simple. You just have to have
bower, and
grunt installed:
npm install
bower install
Here's what you can achieve in 10 minutes time:
- Page Mockup — Try resizing the window
- Source — Typed it up live