Quitters Sometimes Win
Thanks again to Ann Oliveri for pointing to a good Seth Godin post. This one gets (slightly) political, as Godin makes the case for Hillary Clinton quitting her Presidential bid. He really isn't talking politics, though: ...
Category: Individual Development
Fear Is Not Rational
I liked Ben Martin's writing about fear, and Jeff's post about it being time to move on. They made simple and, I think, powerful arguments that the objections that are frequently raised about the risks of social media ar ...
Things to Live By
I find it interesting that we are reluctant to give young workers real responsibility because they lack "experience." True, they will make mistakes and learn from them, but I think they are a LOT smarter than w ...
The Power of Paradox
Several cross-sections of my life seem to be intersecting this week around the theme of "paradox." Here are two of the dictionary.com definitions of the word, paradox:1. a statement or proposition that seems se ...
Speed of Trust (3): Behaviors and Counterfeits
Okay, I have done two posts about Covey's Speed of Trust book (here and here). Covey has five "waves" of trust. The first is self trust and focuses on what YOU need to do to be trustworthy and trust others. Th ...
One Down…
Happy 2008 to everyone. It's leap year, so we have 366 days to work with this year. This one's down (and it was a day off). You've got 365 left. Please make every day count. You owe it both to yourself and all of us. I p ...
Resistance, Learning, and Emotional Intelligence
I had some interesting experiences at last week's Great Ideas Conference in Orlando, Florida, so I plan on a couple of posts to talk about what I learned. At the beginning of the conference, I noticed that several of the ...
Why Wait?
I was intrigued by a post on the Signals v. Noise blog today. Someone had asked them a question about how they resolved stalemates during their design process. Jason replied that they rarely have them because for most de ...
Speed of Trust (2) and Generations
This is the second in a series of I don't know how many posts (here's the first) about Stephen M. R. Covey's The Speed of Trust book. So far, I've only read the part about the first "wave" of trust: self-trust. I made th ...
Speed of Trust (1)
I heard Stephen M.R. Covey speak about his book The Speed of Trust at the ASAE Annual Meeting in Chicago last summer. It's taken me forever to get to the book, but I'm starting to review it. Instead of doing one big book ...