Leading With A Whole New Mind
Eight Ways to Make Meaning
February always seems to be a hard month for me. Spring seems far off and winter has overstayed its welcome. I think what I yearn for during this month is meaning. Why am I here, now? In that place of what seems like status quo and deadening routine, here are eight ways to make meaning.…
Read MoreDon’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. Jim and I had so much to talk about that I’ve split the interview in…
Read MoreEmpathy Babies (and Pets)
The Wall Street Journal reports that a Canadian non-profit, Roots of Empathy, is addressing school bullying with a novel approach–by bringing babies into the classroom. More than 2,000 empathy babies (and their moms) are in elementary school classrooms in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the US. The idea is to boost "emotional literacy" by having…
Read MoreAdvertising’s Whole New Mind
I couldn’t help but smile at this article from Fast Company, where the front photo had arrows pointing to two men, one labeled "Right Brain" and the other labeled "Left Brain." The article is about how a top ad agency, Publicis, is underpinning their creative DNA with web statistics to provide a can’t lose proposition…
Read MoreThe Whole Package
A Fast Company profile of Shana Fisher, senior VP of strategy and mergers and acquisitions for Barry Diller’s conglomerate, IAC, caught my eye with these words: "…she triple-majored in sculpture, philosophy, and linguistics. But her budding art career …took a backseat to a budding interest in Web design, which led to a job at Microsoft…
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