12 LIFE LESSONS
Learn. Grow. Change. All of us who are committed to lifelong learning continue to add to and subtract from our repertoire and our portfolios. We jettison a lot of what we don’t need and invent something new for that which we discard. A current “Leadership and Design” newsletter (www.leadershipanddesign.org) is dedicated to “Do A Lot
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WHAT DO YOU NEED?
I subscribe to several weekly emails from people who usually have something of value to share. Being a deliberate, lifelong learner, I relish the opportunity to pick up information that will help me and others to learn, grow and change. One of those people is Whitney Johnson who, in this week’s email newsletter, offered up
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GOING OFF THE RAILS
There has been a lot said recently about someone going off the rails. We know generally what that means in terms of losing direction, being disabled from further progress. What happens when we’re the ones who have either lost traction or direction or even purpose? What then? Most of us have had some kind of
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TRANSCENDING DIFFERENCES
Disagreements and differences of opinions separate people, communities and countries and there are those whose efforts are designed to pit people against each other through partisanship and intolerance. There are also those whose efforts are designed to build bridges of understanding, create communities of compassion and work toward bringing people together around a common vision,
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A BETTER MOUSETRAP
The phrase “build a better mousetrap” turned into a metaphor about the power of innovation and is frequently taken literally, with more than 4,400 patents issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office for new mousetraps, with thousands more unsuccessful applicants, making them the “most frequently invented device in U.S. history.” Five “better mousetrap” books
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SHOES
Monday morning I boarded a train (BART) to ride from Pleasanton CA to the Oakland Airport, just five stops before getting off and onto the two-car shuttle to the airport. As the train filled with people, I mean really filled, within the 15 minutes before leaving, I found myself looking down at the floor and
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AN OPENING IN THE CLOUDS
Very early one morning when I woke up, I looked out the window (at 3 AM) and there was a strange narrow band of light above the mountain, Sierra Negra, which was across the river from where I lived. I wondered what it was, why it was there, what conditions caused it to be and
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GOING BACK
BACK TO SCHOOL Why do we say that you are going “back” to school? We know generally that it means returning, often to something familiar, going “back” somewhere and that is certainly one of the meanings when using the word “back” as an adverb. However, it also implies a past condition or situation. However, if
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THE FOUR-LEGGED STOOL
Most teachers, many parents and some students are aware of the three-legged stool concept and practice in schools. The three legs are teacher, parents & student. The teacher represents the school, the parents represent themselves and their child and the student can hopefully represent himself or herself to the extent possible. Too much practice in
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