This morning I was traveling. It was a long flight, but the flight crew made great time. In fact, the pilot announced that we would be in a half hour early, at the gate. Great news! I could feel those …
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Travel mess-ups happen. If you’ve been on the road for some time, you accumulate enough stories to play one-up-on you with fellow road warriors. My wackiest experience was when I and a customer were in Suriname (Dutch Guyana) and had …
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Our last discussion was about the game “Gossip” and the calamities resembling the Tower of Babel and the language disconnects that impact our enterprises. In that initial article, I mentioned that we might need a Rosetta stone as a tool …
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Have you ever played Gossip, the party game? It’s simple, great fun, and revealing. In Gossip, the participants line up in a row or a circle and the first player is given a sentence, or better yet, a number of …
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“Every happy family is the same, but unhappy families are all different.” The opening of the Leo Tolstoy novel, Anna Karenina, captures our attention and immediately triggers a reflection of our personal perspective. I have no competence to comment on …
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. –Abraham Lincoln
Abe asked two very important questions we should answer when deciding what to do and how to do it:
Do you know where you are?
Do you know where you’re going?
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Dancing is universal. It comprises virtually every demographic and global grouping of peoples we could think of. It has meanings up, down, and across our cultures, social circles, traditions, rites of passage, events, moments, fun, status and …… …
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“Values” is a word that I hear often. I hear it when people read from a wallet card they keep. I read it from organizational documentation and hall posters, often completing a trilogy with vision and mission, the three amigos
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Have you ever been completely surprised by an audit finding? Someone from outside your area discovered a condition that was always there for you to see, but you were blind to it. When it was all over, that is, you …
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This tempestuous business environment has rained on many of us … more like drenched for some. The umbrellas that jobs and careers provided have been lost, torn or broken for so many. Lots of pundits and economic prophets are more …
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Your couch. It is mine.
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