Posts Tagged ‘change’

Need not linger

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

A few weeks ago we talked about the need to not linger in places where we are not creative, innovative, or simply motivated.  This may have struck a chord with some of you – particularly since this has been a large topic of choice in my office over the past year! It’s obviously (as we [...]

Did I make a mistake?

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Was it a mistake? How often do you ask yourself that question?  The answer doesn’t really matter – the point instead is that we all often ask that question.  The problem is that the value of mistakes is not quantifiable, and that’s simply because there is no such thing as a ‘mistake,’ in my book.  [...]

Change is Good… I promise.

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Change is one of those loaded words that upholds quite the variety of connotation.  It can be exciting, it can be angst inducing.  Either way, it’s good, whether it feels that way or not… in the moment.  Change means that: Something new is about to begin An opportunity to learn something different is an option [...]

Ode to monkey wrenches

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

There’s always that one monkey wrench that gets thrown in your way at some point on a project, in your path on the way toward a goal, hanging in the sidelines, dooming completion, throwing you for a loop, — and it’s okay, really. We have this tendency to want order in our efforts – of [...]

Leadership – a case in point

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Yesterday I noticed Jack Welch posted a comment on Twitter questioning how companies with executive compensation limits would compete in the war for talent. Today NYT writer Kristof post stated that “Half the Sky” made the NYT best-seller list for the 4th week, calling it a “triumph for bleeding hearts!” “Half the Sky” is a [...]