The Personal Journey

In January 2006, I wrote a posting about the difference between good work and great work.  I found definitions of the two from a coaching colleague, Michael Bungay Stanier, who found it from someplace else. (I suppose that’s the way of the Internet-driven world—we have access to great ideas but the originator sometimes gets lost…

I recently finished the novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven. I had seen it in a bookshop in Moab and then found it at my local library when I got home. It’s a quick read. I started it before going to bed one night and then finished it in the morning. When I…

I recently returned from a trip to Moab, Utah with my husband and kids. We hiked at Canyonlands National Park and Arches National Park, both a short drive from Moab. If you’ve never been in this part of the country before, make a point of going. The rock formations are spectacular, the colors are deep…

I talked with a friend who relayed her experiences in job hunting last year. She had several unpleasant encounters before “the door was slammed in her face”—interviewers profiling her psyche and wondering if she had ADD, expecting quotes from a favorite theorist in her discipline, and commenting that she didn’t have enough experience at one…