Studies indicate that business leaders spend at least 25% of their time in business meetings. Unfortunately, most of those meetings are as exciting as the one below – Twenty-five years ago I discovered a way out of the “meeting-mess.” I read Dr. Edward de Bono’s book Six Thinking Hats, applied his insights, and experienced improvements in [...]
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The Leader’s Ultimate Time and Money Saver for Business Meetings
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A Rational Approach to Your Personal Leadership Development
“A Rational Approach to Your Personal Leadership Development”–sounds very formal, doesn’t it? The word rational hints of logic and science. Serious stuff. Rational also has a strong connection to mathematics where a “ratio” is a relationship between two numbers of the same kind. For example, we can speak of the ratio of women to men [...]
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The Innovation Manager’s Playbook
When we were children, my older brother and I enjoyed reading Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories and Uncle Scrooge comic books. The issues I particularly enjoyed were those that featured Donald Duck’s nephews: Huey, Dewey and Louie. Huey, Dewey and Louie were members of a scouting group called “The Junior Woodchucks.” What fascinated me about [...]
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Don’t Be a Nowhere Man
Brilliant Blogger Jan Harness produced yet another interesting post yesterday–Creativity Tips: Forget Your Phone. She wrote about how she had forgotten her cell phone and that allowed her “multi-tasking brain” to breathe a sigh of relief. She then mentioned that once-upon-a-time, in the days before cell phones and mobile phones, many homes had but a [...]
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Silence is Golden, part two
A few years back I participated in a marketing workshop conducted by Seth Godin. It was held at what was then his business space: a loft north of New York City next to a commuter line. About every twelve minutes or so, a train would roar by and Godin would stop speaking, sometimes in mid-sentence. [...]
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Silence is Golden, part one
I was in London the week all U.K. flights were cancelled due to the ash caused by the eruption of an Icelandic volcano. I’ve been to London many times and this time I was struck by how much more quiet it was without 3000 jet take-offs and landings each day. It was amazing. Today I [...]
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Heavy Duty
Here’s the title of a recent article by Natalie Angier in The New York Times: “Abstract Thoughts? The Body Takes Them Literally.” The point of the article is this – we embody, we incorporate, we flesh-out the abstractions we think about. As the French philosopher Merleau-Ponty put it: we are our bodies. When people are [...]
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The Pierogi Perusal
My grandmother made a mean pierogi. Her best were the potato pierogies, slathered in butter and seasoned with dill. A pierogi is a semi-circular dumpling made from unleavened dough. Traditionally they are filled with potatoes, ground meat, or mushrooms and cabbage. If made as a dessert, they can be filled with different fruits and rolled [...]
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Thinking About Abstinence
This was the lead-in for a front-page article in The Kansas City Star: “Abstinence approach allowing students to list the pros and cons of sexual activity shows promising results, study finds.” Traditional approaches to abstinence moralize; the new approach invites students to think. Not surprisingly, the new approach was more effective than the traditional approach. [...]
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