October 30th, 2009
So…love proves to be an interesting topic here. I have gotten some pretty passionate e-mails after my posts What About Love and Why Love. I have heard from people both passionately agreeing with me and passionately disagreeing with me. Interesting. Since it seems to be interesting, I think I should babble on… I think that [Read More…]
October 26th, 2009
I have a question to respond to. I am a question guy. I love questions. I prefer a good question to a good answer any day of the week. Answers generally bore me. I think that good, big, open-ended questions help us find the future. Last week my question was “what about love”? I had [Read More…]
October 23rd, 2009
I try to promote and celebrate the flying of the Freak Flag on Fridays. The Freak Flag represents a lot of things. Here are a few… It is the celebration of coloring outside the lines. It is for wearing socks that say something. It is the celebration of chair dancing, because you cannot help it [Read More…]
October 22nd, 2009
Sometimes we do not leave room for the truth. We get wrapped up in being specific and efficient and accurate and professional…and we lose sight of what matters. A friend of mine recently asked why “love” is not a topic category on my blog (it will be now). Interesting question, especially since I have written [Read More…]
October 19th, 2009
Diversity. Possibly the most poorly understood, misunderstood dyanmic in the world of business (and education, politics, human resources, leadership development, etc.). Diversity means difference. Difference shows up in many different forms…but before we even take a look at that, I think having a better understanding of what difference actually means can be helpful. Here are [Read More…]
October 16th, 2009
I try to celebrate the Freak Flag on Fridays. the Freak Flag represents a lot of things. Here are a few… It is the celebration of coloring outside the lines. It is the celebration of chair dancing, because you cannot help it and chalk on the sidewalks and food on the wall and of skipping [Read More…]
October 12th, 2009
October 12th, 2009
October 7th, 2009
Kind of stuck on the theme of leadership and love this week and wanted to share a couple more thoughts… I think that the absence of relevant leadership may be the defining issue of our time. A lot of people are and have been greatly concerned about our current economic situation in this country. A [Read More…]
October 6th, 2009
In my last post I laid out some thoughts on what leadership must become. I have spoken at conferences in Virginia and the Midwest in the past year making the case that our antiquated approach to leadership is the underlying challenge of our time. I do not know that any of my ideas about what [Read More…]