Posts by Carol Ross
Change Your Music, Change Your Mind
Ever notice that the only happy people at the airport are the ones with iPods? Recently, I was at O'Hare, waiting to board a flight home to Denver. The flight was delayed by two hours, which meant I would be sleeping in my own bed sometime after 1am. I had the foresight before departing on…
Read MoreSpreading Gratitude Through Twitter and Blogs
I'm still trying to figure out how I want to use Twitter, a micro-blogging service that's getting press and becoming more mainstream. One of the fun uses: organizing a conversation around a specific topic, with a bunch of people you may or may not know ("followers" in Twitter language.) In the blogging world, people have…
Read MoreTribes
I just finished the book, Tribes, by Seth Godin. It's a quick read with lots of stories to illustrate the finer points of leadership and community-building. Here's just one nugget that resonated with me, on the Anatomy of a Movement: "Senator Bill Bradley defines a movement as having three elements: A narrative that tells a…
Read MoreOprah and A Whole New Mind
I was happy to see that Dan Pink is still talking about A Whole New Mind, most recently with Oprah on her Soul Series webcast. While I’ve seen Pink speak several times and have interviewed him twice, I’m always interested to see how he responds to new questions. Oprah had her own take when she…
Read MoreGratefulness in Full Color
Here’s a video that I really love, sent to me by a friend. I hope you love it as much as I do. Many thanks to Marissa for helping me figure out how to embed a YouTube video in a blog post. (Yes, I really was an engineer at one time!) What does gratefulness look…
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