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Networking Event, March 19
Just a quick plug for an event that I'll be speaking at in Denver on March 19. Where can you meet a four-time 25-year old cancer survivor, the Denver Business Journal's 2006 Outstanding Woman in Business (Professional Category), a marketing...
Cash Is Queen
An article in the Wall Street Journal (dated Jan 18, 2007) is entitled, "Tech Start-Ups Have Money to Burn, But Choose Thrift." Unlike the dot-come boom of the late 90's, when VC-financed start-ups had burn rates in the millions of...
A Break for SAP Users
I'm catching up on clippings from last year that show the progress of whole brain thinking in the business world--how Leading With A Whole New Mind is playing out. A Wall Street Journal article from June 2006 reports that SAP,...
Where Are the Girls?
I recently attended a math competition that my sons were in. It's called Math Counts, and here's the blurb from their website: "MATHCOUNTS® is a national math enrichment, coaching & competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement in every...
It’s Official
I'm a bit late in reporting this but I trust the data is still valid, maybe even more so now. A survey released last fall by the the global public relations firm, Weber Shandwick and KRC Research, "The Changing Face...
Looking for a Few Good Musicians
I play flute in a community band in the Boulder area that is needing a few more musicians to round out the ensemble. The band is part of the Rocky Mountain Center for the Musical Arts. We rehearse on Thursday...
Change Is Hard
A friend sent me recent article from the Washington Post on change, based on a journal paper from the American Academy of Family Physicians. The "Stages of Change" model describes five stages that people go through before making a successful...
Ilene Kouzel Scholarship
The Ilene Kouzel Scholarship for Diversity in Leadership has just been established in honor of my friend, who died of ALS last October. The scholarship is intended to help fund participants of the Coaches Training Institute Co-Active Leadership program. More...
Dream Shrinkage
I received an email from a new client. I had asked him to fill out a form with a series of questions like, "If life were as good as it gets, what's there?" These questions help the client express his...