Category Archives: News
Who is leading you?
There was a couple, long married, who decided to go on a world tour. They saved their money and made arrangements to take time of work. They were very excited as they had not seen much of the world prior to this trip. So off they went. They traveled to Norway and the fjords were [...]
Followership
IT IS THE FOLLOWER THAT TRANSFORMS A SINGLE NUT INTO A LEADER http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement.html We create, and we are created…
The Mind’s a Stairway…
Today, as a change from my voice, someone else’s – demonstrating the mind’s ability to see what isn’t there a lot better than I could say it. Please follow this link for a 6.29 video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bG7EFhMw8w&p=431E402B4A28DC29&playnext=1&index=61
SIMPLE MATH
So let’s get into something practical and Real World. You know how I love The Real World (and the reason I love The Real World is that we get to create it). As Duane Black points out, leadership can be reduced to a simple Math equation. Here’s how. When you are positive, you [...]
Integrity
So there’s YES and there’s NO and as Peter Block points out Without your ability to say No, your Yes means nothing. It’s the fact that we can and do choose to say No – clearly, cleanly, authentically – that gives power to those times when we choose to say Yes. That’s not instinctive [...]
BEING YES IN THE WORLD
The opposite of YES is not NO. NO is a creative act. NO – as an authentic expression of denial or refusal – is one of the most powerful claims of our humanity. NO asserts boundaries, re-enforces priorities, produces certainty. All of these things are wonderful things. In fact, the world craves [...]
Life is Created
This is one of two essential principles I stand for in my work. Nothing else works without this principle in place. Many people I meet who are in leadership positions have mistakenly separated themselves from the source of their problems or challenges. They think that they are ‘in here’ (ie inside some [...]
PLEASING THE BOSS
I was involved recently in a wonderful workshop fronted by Dominic Alldis of musicandmanagement.com I always welcome workshops like this – people who come in to the business world from music, or theater, or improv, or sculpture, or meditation, or sport, or whatever – who ask those of us immersed in the theory and practice [...]
THE OPPOSITE OF OVERLOAD
Overloaded, overwhelmed, busy, busy, busy. The opposite of overload, the cure for being overwhelmed, the solution to too much busyness, is not more effective time management. It is clarity of purpose. Imagine waking up in the morning. Maybe the snooze alarm has gone off once already and you are in that wonderful state [...]
Zygmunt Bauman
The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman suggests that human beings are the only creatures who know they are going to die. And worse than that, they know they know, and can’t un-know it. But Bauman challenges us well: to construct a life … “forgetful of death, life lived as meaningful and worth-living, life alive with purpose instead [...]
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