Posts by Carol Ross
Double Takes
Two things caused me to do a double take recently. Here’s the first one: It’s a bottle of Evian water in a hotel room, selling for $5. Yes, that’s right, five bucks. It made me wonder what the mini-bar prices looked like. The bottle was placed strategically on the desk in the room, for the…
Read MoreEngineers with a Whole New Mind
Last month, I was on the campus of Northwestern University to interview fellow alum, Dan Pink, on applying his book, A WHOLE NEW MIND, to shape one’s career. The interview itself was great fun–Pink’s brain is crammed with facts and figures and he’s a quick wit. What I noticed in our conversation is how easily…
Read MoreQuestion #11
This is the last Q+A that Ilene sent me, less than two weeks before she died. Typically, she would wait for me to email her a question and then she would email her reply. She found it easier to answer a question that I posed, rather than write spontaneously. The last couple of questions in…
Read MoreNora, The Woodland Fairy
My five-year old niece came to visit me recently. Her parents had taken her to the opening of a new mall in Boulder and as part of the celebration, they had face painting for the kids. Nora was so excited about how her face had transformed her into a fairy, that she wanted to stop…
Read MoreRadio Collars
During a coaching session, a client stopped to yell at her dog, who had left the allowable range of his radio collar and chased after a squirrel. The threat of a zap from the collar had not deterred him from going after something enticing and interesting. Everything in front of me is fodder for coaching,…
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