As a way of closing out this year and welcoming in the next, I offer you a poem – of hope and possibility, of the beauty inside us and around us, and of the immense possibility we each have on [...]
Quote of the Week “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” –Lao Tzu
I love the quote below – in fact, I joke that I make my living traveling the world helping leaders to ask good questions and listen deeply to what they’re hearing. It means sorting [...]
Quote of the Week “The power to question is the basis of all human progress.” –Indira Gandhi
Quote of the Week “I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down…” –Abraham Lincoln
My good friend Colleen’s father died this week – Retired General Richard X. Larkin. I never met him, but know a lot about his character in the daughter he raised – a warrior in the truest sense – [...]
Quote of the Week “The most important thing in life is neither marriage, nor a degree at a university, nor living in comfort and plenty. It is the will to learn. Unless we learn great [...]
Imagine this … you’re in conversation – you speak, they respond, connecting, building – you listen and link elsewhere – more back and forth and someone summarizes [...]
Quote of the Week “For I am full of spirit and resolve to meet all perils constantly.” –William Shakespeare
In an engaging session recently, Brigadier General Rhonda Cornum, MD spoke about Comprehensive Soldier Fitness and the Army’s Resiliency Program that’s being offered to soldiers, [...]
Quote of the Week “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” –Albert Einstein
Let’s talk about the worst environmental disaster in history happening right now in the Gulf of Mexico. What a calamity – and now the blame game begins. How did we get to this? Did [...]
Quote of the Week Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. –Heraclitus
With world cup madness about to overtake most of the world, all eyes are on South Africa! Argentina’s coach and former world cup hero Diego Maradona has promised to run naked through the [...]
Quote of the Week “He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.” –Harry Emerson Fosdick
This past weekend we’ve witnessed a tragedy of unspeakable magnitude … The Polish president, senior members of the cabinet and military leaders were all killed in an air disaster. This is ever [...]
Quote of the Week “Great acts are made up of small deeds.” –Lao Tzu
Quote of the Week “The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.” –Bobby McFerrin
Remember Bobby Mc Ferrin – the Don’t Worry, Be Happy guy – he’s a world class musician and thinker. Watch how in a matter of 10 seconds, he gets an audience of hundreds on the same [...]
Quote of the Week “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come [...]