Pondering Oprah
I’ve been thinking a lot about Oprah Winfrey over the last few weeks. I’ve never seen her TV show but know that it is popular. She routinely makes the top 50 lists of the most powerful women in the world …
Category: Personal Development
Resonance
I like to start my day reading Clayton Lowe’s blog. I don’t always understand his poems but often his words and images make me feel deeply. He’s started keeping a microblog on Twitter. Sometime in the last 6 hours he …
Wonderful Opportunity
I got an email this morning from Luciano who maintains the personal development website Litemind.com (Exploring Ways to Use our Minds Efficiently). I had not come across his relatively new blog before, but he has some excellent articles on memory …
HERS Institute November
We finished up our HERS Institute Denver over the last two days. The last few sessions were on career mapping, diversity issues and leading from wherever you are within your organization. Overall, the HERS Institute over the last few months …
Hypothetical Meeting
Imagine that you were asked to describe your dream job. What would you do if your fairy godmother asked you when you wanted to start?
Asking for what you want
The Myers Briggs Type has come up in several of my conversations and emails recently. I’m an introvert with a capital I, an INTJ to be precise. A colleague was surprised to find that I consider myself an extreme introvert. …
Personal Development Websites
I came across this list a few months ago on Christine Kane’s blog. There are a stunning number of blogs dedicated to personal growth and development. I think that some of them are trying to follow in Steve Pavlina’s very …
Dreams Crushed
I had not heard anything about the dream job for about a month. The last communication I had was an email from the Chair of the Search Committee who wrote in part: You made a very positive impression on the …
Imperfection
I love Christine Kane’s blog. I needed her post today called Allowing Imperfection. The premise is to not let our imperfection keep us from doing something we want to be doing when we know we may not do it well. …
HERS Institute – September
The residential HERS program met this past weekend to address our “Change Challenges”. We were asked to write up the challenges we face in our institutions in a fictionalized fashion as case studies. I had my new boss, who just …