Archive for March, 2010
I read an article in the Wall Street Journal that described how our cultures have been shaped by how leaders use their brains. Although the article didn’t state outright that left-brain dominant leaders are at the source of our problems, this is implied in the text. Since men tend to be the heavier users of [...]
Changing your life is all about emotions–acting on them, giving in to them, being sabotaged by them, or being driven to success.
When you want to make a change in your life, you usually want to feel something different than what you are feeling now, right? You may have a desire to feel something more, such [...]
Appreciative Dialogue is based on the popular approach to organizational change called Appreciative Inquiry that focuses people on what’s working rather than trying to fix what’s not. This is an excellent technique to use when you feel stuck and can’t solve a problem. Taking an appreciative approach, you see your issue through a new lens, [...]
A friend shared the following quote with me and it touched me so much I felt compelled to write about it…
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” – Albert Einstein
I know that when I am in the presence of something [...]
When trying out new technology, I always seem to have a glitch or two or three. This happened again today when you received a duplicate post from last week. I am sorry.
I have a new blog site at www.WanderWomanBook.com. I am now posting there first. Supposedly, the posts then link to this site for you [...]
How often do you say, “What an idiot?”
I was first in line to go through the security station at my gate in the airport in Amsterdam. Before I could get to the conveyor belt, an airline employee took my passport and told me to go to one of the tables. I obeyed.
There were three pedestals [...]
A new study from Catalyst came out last month that basically says women with MBAs are still being treated as inferior than their male counterparts. In The Promise of Future Leadership: A Research Program on Highly Talented Employees in the Pipeline, Catalyst found that among high-potential graduates from elite MBA programs—those graduates companies count on [...]
