Sheepwalking
Seth Godin has a great posting on "sheepwalking." It reminds me of a conversation with my husband on how employees in large institutions follow policy, not because it's the right thing to do for the customer (in fact, often, it's...
Yertle the Turtle
My 11-year old son wants a pet. After my husband talked about the expense and work of having a dog, he settled for a turtle. I asked him to do research on the Internet about turtle care. It's the engineer...
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...