“Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.” Alexis Carrel
DRILL is the fourth technique for rearranging your life in order to adapt to the challenging times that face us all. Drill stands for locating, renewing, and using sources of energy to stay balanced and to stay ‘fueled up.’
So many [...]
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“Being clear of clutter is one of the greatest aids I know to discovering and manifesting the life you want.” Karen Kingston, Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui
Yesterday while speaking to a networking group on the topic of Preparing for the New Normal we created a list of things that get in our way, in [...]
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain
The second in our series of pieces on Preparing for [...]
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Will Rogers told us: “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
So are you going to get run over, are you just sitting there wondering what is up ahead on the road of life? Rather than sit, I joined up with Kay Hubbard and Beth Kelly [...]
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Today I had the privilege of listening to Jim Kouzes, author of The Leadership Challenge, and #12 on the Wall Street Journal’s list of best executive educators in the US. The teleforum, “Enduring Truths About Leadership in Tough Times,” was sponsored and moderated by Executive Coach Patricia Wheeler, publisher of Leading News at leadingnews.org. There [...]
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There are a ton of reasons to live on the “3rd Coast” — West Michigan. One reason is the great Chamber of Commerce in Holland, where today I took the opportunity at an early-bird breakfast to hear a thought-provoking perspective on what is coming at us from the technology front, and details on the rapid [...]
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Are you an Accelerator or a Terminator?
Last year, while leading a strategic visioning and team development retreat, the Division VP, assigned primary follow-up accountability to the Director of HR, Alisa, whom he dubbed the “accelerator.” What the Division VP wished of Alisa was that she would move the team through its agreed-to action plan, that [...]
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Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and the director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, has given us some new terminology in a recent article in The Atlantic and in an interview last Monday on NPR’s “OnPoint” with Tom Ashboork.
A “talent-rich ecosystem” [...]
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Last week I pointed you to an audio of David Allen, author of Getting Things Done, discussing Making It All Work, his newest book. In this post I point you to a video of the guts of his thinking. It is very east to digest. Good luck in getting Control and Perspective on [...]
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In our last post we talked about the psychodynamics of stress and change based upon an article in the Chicago Tribune (2/15/09) entitled “Your Emotional Stimulus Plan.” We suggested that leaders might assess their own personal dynamics in order to mobilize themselves and prepare to lead others as quickly as possible.
This post speculates as to [...]
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