Crossing a Mathematician With A Sociologist
Seth Godin points to a great blog that he just discovered from one of his blog readers. It's created by a clever woman (most likely a scientist or engineer) who uses Venn diagrams and X-Y graphs to describe how we...
International Coaching Week
It's International Coaching Week, as proclaimed by the International Coach Federation (ICF). And as part of the festivities, ICF has just released preliminary findings from a global survey of 6,000 coaches, conducted last fall, on the coaching profession. I've been...
Bad Power Point
Seth Godin has a great posting on what we take for granted in business--bad Power Point presentations. No one seems to notice anymore because the standard is so low. What I like about Seth's thoughts is that he points to...
Visual Thesaurus
A friend of mine just pointed me to Visual Thesaurus. Provide a word and the tool creates a visual diagram of related words and their meanings. Sort of a mind map for words. You can try a few words for...
Tea Time
Several weeks ago, the women in my family celebrated my mom's 79th birthday by taking her to high tea at a historic hotel in Denver, The Brown Palace. It's a classy place where heads of state stay when they are...
The Power of Story
I was doing research for a talk to leaders in a company. One of the points that I was making was that extraordinary leaders are story-tellers. I ran across a reference to the 2005 Stanford University commencement speech given by...
When Did the Aliens Arrive?
My son had a birthday party with his friends last weekend. He turned 14 years old. Seven boys in the midst of adolescence plus one wanna be (my 11-year old son). When my son was younger, he seemed to have...
Red Letter Days
This must be a red letter day. Today is my son's 14th birthday AND Andrea Lee, a pioneer in the coaching industry and author, has just posted an interview with me on her blog, Money, Meaning and Beyond. First, my...