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Building Sustaining Relationships

By admin On December 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Got an email from a MBA student in Shanghai about Building Sustaining Relationships. She  has been recommending to friends in her leadership class.  I am glad to know it travels across cultural boundaries.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

By admin On November 1, 2011 · 1 Comment

Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman’s new book, Thinking Fast and Slow, does what a really worthwhile book should do. It gives us a way think differently and better. Differently in that we are prone as Kahneman argues to think in ways that make for less than optimal to just flat out bad decisions. [...]

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Success as doing the best you are capable of…

By admin On October 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I have been asked to give a talk to a group of young leaders in a school setting. The core of these students have been through ropes courses, pep talks, group exercises and lectures all focusing on the theme of leadership.

I have been thinking about the how of things, what can one do to [...]

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Becoming Sustainable – Wisdom for Individuals and Organizations

By admin On September 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I am grateful to working with a new research area.  Through interviews, surveys and some focused group work I am identifying how people do three things that lead to renewal. Based on the work I outlined in an article a couple years back, I am gathering insights about the how of personal [...]

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Wisdom for Work

By admin On May 26, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Most of us remember some particular day. It may have included grogginess or alertness. We may have been in a huge lecture hall, in a conversation around a table or in a dorm room or we may simply have been reading a book; assigned or not. And on that day, some concept connected so completely [...]

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Compassion

By admin On May 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Reading a interview with David Tracy where he credits Derrida with turning our gaze to the Other. In the past few weeks a tornado has struck the community where we do our work as St Stephen’s and The Vine, [...]

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Language, culture and collaboration

By admin On March 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Having just returned from a business trip to Germany I was again struck by how common it is for people in other parts of the world to speak multiple languages. As someone who is still working on the clear and effective use of English, it is a touch overwhelming and at times embarrassing to be [...]

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writing time…

By admin On February 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Thinking of the Ray Charles tune, “Cryin’ Time” or maybe MC Hammer’s “Hammer Time.”

Either way I am in the midst of finishing my dissertation which brings me to this quote:

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and [...]

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Tikkun

By admin On January 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Tikkun olam (Hebrew: תיקון עולם‎) is a Hebrew phrase that means “repairing the world.

I have been doing more work with individual leaders and boards in development. I find myself more and more wondering how it would be if when we encountered something that we [...]

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simple signs

By admin On November 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I spent the last three days working on a retreat for a team of senior level leaders for a non-profit. One of them is quite excited about this TED video by coach Coach John Wooden on True Success

It is a powerful statement about developing one’s assets and/or the [...]

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