When I’m reading a good book I will underline passages and write notes in the margins. And later I come back to those parts of the book and re- absorb them. In business, when we are absorbing and evaluating information, it’s good to mentally underline and write notes in the margins; and then step back,
I showed up at Changi airport in Singapore at 5 am for my flight to Sydney; they had no record of my reservation. With not much time and no way to reach the travel agent I was anxious to say the least! The agent said there were no seats available for him to release in
Its amazing how many words there are for something we shouldn’t do: Procrastinate – delay, put off doing Synonyms: adjourn, be dilatory,dally, dawdle, defer, drag, drag one’s feet, give the run around, hesitate, hold off, lag*, let slide, linger, loiter, pause, play a waiting game, play for time, postpone, prolong, protract, retard, stall, stay, suspend,
I read a sermon a pastor gave about vision. He speaks of a large flawed block of marble in a quarry in the 1400s that lay for 40 years because no-one saw a use for it. Until a 26 year old man came upon it and saw within that slab of marble, a graceful man,
Ghandi: ” the difference between what we do and could do, would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems” No- one I have ever met has been satisfied with, or proud of the state of our planet and the inequities and injustices that exist. And yet, we seem to make very little progress in
Engagement – you know you want it! All of us have at some point in our careers been at a place where we didn’t feel we got the engagement we needed from our manager. When you don’t get it you are a bit less motivated, a little less energized. Conversely, when you get it you
Whether you are delivering a business plan, managing a turnaround, an action plan to get synergies from a merger, or trying to attain a revenue growth target, your results fall along a curve. Understand the key levers of your business because not everything can be a priority, not everything can get the same resources. Figure
Derreck Jensen writes ” far too many of us have forgotten or never knew, that words can be weapons to be used as weapons in the service of our communities. Far too many of us have forgotten, or never knew, that words should be used as weapons in the service of our communities” In ,
I was speaking to a student, Hank, volunteering with Saude Crianca, an NGO in Brazil. This student is looking to go to medical school. Hank told me that he has learned that there is so much application in the United States for emerging entrepreneurial healthcare models that involve volunteerism, innovative practices of looking at healthcare
I had the privilege of meeting a young woman in the Rocinha favela in Rio. This favela is the largest in Latin America, housing over 120,000 people in 1 square mile. Through the help of the amazing Vera Cordeiro and her team at Saude Crianca, this young woman’s life was turned around. From unemployed, with