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“Wordle” it
- Category: Time Management, Uncategorized
Do you know about or are you addicted to playing wordle? It is a NY Times owned game that you can access for free that asks you to guess what...
Plan tight, process loose
- Category: Uncategorized
Creating and then executing a strategic plan is not a simple thing. It is at the heart of long term organizational success. Yet, we get distracted by the day-to-day, by...
Unwinding
- Category: Uncategorized
Hard driving business leaders find it extremely difficult to unwind. Give them quiet time and their minds race with all they must get done. Many have embraced meditation or mindful...
Innovation versus innovative process
- Category: Company Culture, High Performance Teams, Systems, Uncategorized
Have you ever noticed that innovators talk really fast? It seems like the ideas are flooding their brain 3 times faster than the mouth can talk…or than the listener can...
Found Family
- Category: Living Well, Uncategorized
If you have lived in one place for a long time, you might have one too – a found family. You didn’t necessarily choose it, it just sort of developed...
Customer “dis”-service
- Category: Uncategorized
I drove into the car service department at my appointed time and waited 10 minutes before the tech came out with his clipboard. He nicely apologized for being late, checked...
Sensemaking is a leadership skill
- Category: High Performance Teams, Innovation, IT, Leadership, Making better decisions, Uncategorized
In a Vistage webinar on Friday, Dave Nelson commented that in the list of required leadership skills for successful leaders, perhaps the most important one in this moment, beyond, vision,...
My everyday is their fabulous
- Category: Communication, Leadership, Personal Development, Uncategorized
A regular hike in Griffith Park takes us to a popular view spot of the Hollywood sign. We usually hear passing hikers speak many foreign languages on this hike, unlike...
Business + Community
- Category: Company Culture, Leadership, Systems, Uncategorized
Board members of non-profits are expected to contribute their smarts and their money and show up to their fundraisers. That is part of the deal. So this week we trekked...
Moms – thank you for your service
- Category: Living Well, Mindset, Uncategorized
I remember coming out of a bathroom in an local arboretum with my 4 and 1 year old when an older lady smiled broadly at us and said how lovely...
Your mind is a dangerous place
- Category: Mindset, Personal Development, Uncategorized
Have you recently sat quietly with your eyes closed and let your mind wander wherever it may? Perhaps you are meditating, or just breathing or giving yourself a moment to...
Role models around aging
- Category: Living Well, Uncategorized
Friday, I called my Aunt Ruth to wish her a happy 96th birthday. She sounded very cheery as she told me how lovely the flowers were that we had...
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