Posts Tagged ‘opportunity’

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 [...]

Gotta Look on the Bright Side

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

You know the frustration of calling the cable company, not being able to get to a human being, instead the automated voice telling me they did not understand my command, “let’s try that again” – why do these automated systems raise our blood pressure so? I’m certain that despite my normally low blood pressure, it [...]

Take it easy on the cutbacks, please…

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Simple pleasures, as the saying goes, go a long way. It is a time of cutting back, thinking twice and evaluating the necessities of life. This is not a bad thing, in fact, as everything in our economy points to – it was not only time for cutbacks, but essential to our progression, growth, and [...]