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Honest Leadership
Honest Leadership
We generally think of honesty as in telling the truth, not telling lies. There is a deeper kind of honesty, the integrity to tell the…
December 30, 2008
If not now, when?
(The fourth in a series of blogs appealing, beseeching, imploring YOU to design a written life plan for the coming year!) Life happens. Time passes.…
December 29, 2008
No one needs a smile more than someone who has none left to give
There is a tendency to fight fire with fire, to return sullenness or rudeness with anger, to do unto others as they have done unto…
December 24, 2008
What Do You Think Is Impossible?
What do you think is impossible? What do you think is impossible for you to do? To accomplish? To change? To become? To start? To…
December 23, 2008
Excuse Me! Your Life is Waiting!
(Third in a series of blogs urging, begging, pleasing with YOU to turbocharge your existence with a WRITTEN life plan for the coming year!) I think you…
December 22, 2008
The Transmission of Emotion: Contagious Happiness?
Can the happiness of people you don’t even know impact your happiness? Can the happiness of your friends’ friends’ friends affect your happiness? Yes. A…
December 19, 2008
“I don’t want your apology – I want you to be sorry.”
How many times have you heard someone say in a loud or aggrieved voice: “I SAID I was sorry, didn’t I?” Those words may say…
December 18, 2008
Expectations Can Create Reality: On the Self-Fulfilling Nature of Social Stereotypes
Once, some social scientists, as they are wont to do, ran an experiment. They asked 51 women to chat on the phone with men they…
December 17, 2008
Intelligent Criticism, Effective Feedback
How to give useful feedback? How to make a helpful observation that does not make a person defensive? I recently received some highly effective feedback,…
December 16, 2008
Yesterday you said Tomorrow
(The Second in a Series of Blogs Prodding, Pushing, and Poking You to Get Moving on Your Life Plan for Next Year) The clock is…
December 15, 2008
Cheerfully Executing Plan B
“For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something…
December 11, 2008
Two Words
Two words of power, two words that trap. A young man sought out an aged mentor after a series of disastrous setbacks. After he, with…
December 10, 2008
Officers Eat Last
“Stewardship Leadership.” “Servant Leadership.” These terms speak of leadership as a trust, a fiduciary responsibility. At its highest meaning, leadership carries a sense of duty,…
December 9, 2008
Time to START…
Time to START… Time to start what? Time to start thinking about your roles and goals for the coming year. It is mere days until…
December 8, 2008
Choosing Your Reality
There is a story about a man piloting a small boat in an early morning deep fog on a large lake nestled in the forests…
December 5, 2008
Some people always find a way, some people always find an excuse!
A friend of mine told me about his trials and tribulations in completing a renovation project. He concluded his tales of contractor woe by saying,…
December 4, 2008
What do you look forward to?
Self-knowledge* can be an elusive goal. I find I still have “built-in” assumptions about myself that are untested or even untrue about what will make…
December 3, 2008
We have wings we know not yet of…
“A recession is when your neighbor is out of work, a depression is when you are out of work.” We are living in “interesting” economic…
December 2, 2008
The Ten Wisest People I Know
This is a short post about a process, not a result. I ran across the phrase, “The Ten Wisest People I Know,” in this morning’s…
December 1, 2008