Posts by Carol Ross
Free Play
I just finished the book, Free Play, by Stephen Nachmanovitch. The subtitle is "Improvisation in Life and Art" and the book is a wonderful guide for exploring the nature of creating and creativity. One of the chapters I particularly enjoyed is titled, "The Power of Limits," which is about how fixed constraints can drive our…
Read MoreA Fair Trade?
A friend emailed me this cartoon about life coaching. (If you are having trouble reading the words on the cartoon, click on the picture for a full-size version.) With every joke, there’s an element of truth. Unfortunately, too many trained coaches are emerging from coaching schools without any sense of what it takes to run…
Read MoreLeadership With a Twist
I recently blogged about my friend, Kenny Moore, giving a talk sponsored by the American Management Association on leadership. Click here to get the recording. Well worth the time it takes to listen. Kenny is insightful, passionate, fresh in his thinking. He’s nothing less than brilliant on this recording.
Read MoreA 12-Year Old’s Perspective
My son was bemoaning that fact that it was another Monday, and the start of another week of school. He told me that it’s getting easier to get up on Mondays but he wishes things were different at school. How so? "I wish I could get comfortable, relax, and talk. You know, just like you…
Read MoreSylvia Acevedo
While I was in Austin last week, I had the good fortune of meeting Sylvia Acevedo, a three-time entrepreneur and former sales and marketing executive in high-tech (Apple, Autodesk, Dell, IBM). She has a master’s degree in engineering from Stanford and started her career at Jet Propulsion Labs. Not too shabby. Her current company, CommuniCard,…
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