leadership notes from the inside: Archive

good & great

good coaches based on experience; great coaches based on possibilities. good does things right; great does the right things. good controls; great lets go. good creates strategy; great re-imagines how it could be done. good shares with each other; great learns from each other. good strives for perfection; great launches at happy. good listens. great debates. good asks others how you’re doing; great...

Apr 26th

Thanks, Seth

Everything Seth Godin writes, I read. He makes things simple, relevant and provocative. 1) Simple—his blogs aren’t long. They’re’ usually in bullets. They’re easy to read. He writes with more periods. I read longer blogs. I read articles. I still even read some books. Yet anyone who can give me the essence of what they’re thinking in a few short thoughts is...

Apr 14th

Let's All Do Great Work

I had the privilege of being a contributor to a book that was created from an idea Michael Bungay Stanier had, author of Do More Great Work. The idea of the book came from the premise that you can create great work—work that matters, that you care about, that makes a difference. His “great work” became a cause for which 62 contributors would share their ideas about great work. The book is...

Sep 9th

Stirring Emotions

I just went to STAN/Tedx this past weekend (Society, technology, art and Nature) put on by Stanford University. Once again I wasn’t surprised that the presenters who most moved me and others were the ones who told stories and stirred emotions. Jennifer Aaker, a Stanford professor, urged us to swab our cheeks to donate bone marrow. This could’ve been a dull speech on the importance of...

May 24th

Dance, Paint, Color

Brenda Ueland wrote in her book, “If You Want to Write” that everyone has a creative streak inside of them…that we’re all yearning to write, to express, to paint, to dance, to do something. Yet, we lock it inside of ourselves. We don’t color, we don’t imagine, we don’t explore, we don’t let ourselves color outside of the lines, we don’t finish what we started, what we dreamed. We get...

Feb 17th

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Just Three

This time of year is often a time for reflection as well as a time to create the future. I’m reading a lot of blogs and articles about New Year’s resolutions. In our Pilates class today, the instructor said, “Folks—you need to squeeze in closer since we’re always a little more crowded in the New Year, but this will last just a few weeks, so bear with us”. We all laughed, but not at the others, at...

Jan 4th

Dec 26th

CLO Magazine asks for favorite quotes on learning

Here are some of my favorites: The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. Alvin Toffler Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.-Og Mandino

Dec 22nd

“Learning is our greatest technology.”

– Justin Mass

Nov 10th