Cultivating Communities
A couple of years ago, a coaching colleague, Fernando Lopez, recommended the book, Cultivating Communities of Practice and provided a summary of principles from the book. While the book is written from the perspective of using communities to enhance an...
Don’t Go Back to Sleep
The newest interview posted on my podcast, Leading With a Whole Mind, is about making meaning and refusing to go back to sleep. Jim Huling is author of Choose Your Life! and CEO of Matrix Resources, an IT staffing firm....
Crossing Geckos and Mussels
"I like to move in the fringes of established fields, where totally different fields interact. That's where opportunities are." --Phil Messersmith, professor of biomedical engineering at Northwestern University. Messersmith, who has an undergraduate degree in life sciences, a master's degree...
Maui Wowee
I recently returned from a vacation in Maui with my family. Unlike most vacations, this one was an impulse purchase, the result of a Saturday morning conversation that my husband had with a friend who was headed to Maui shortly....
Learning from Horses
I blogged previously about attending a demo of Equine Assisted Learning--where horses are used as a way to mirror human behavior and dynamics in groups. Fascinating stuff. For those in the Denver area, now is your chance to experience the...
Mentor Yourself
More commentary on the Employee Manifesto by Peter Block. Block's second point is mentor yourself. By this, he means to be responsible for your own growth and development. What I've observed is that individuals want growth and development--that's also validated...
Working, Playing, and Everydayness of Life
A couple of quotes to ponder: "The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and...
Digital Coaches and Hollywood Writers
Signs that technology is increasingly impacting the way we live and work: Seth Godin has a Squidoo lens for digital coaches. What's a digital coach? Read more here. The McNeil News Hour recently reported that Hollywood writers, in light of...