Sometimes, an e-mail forwarded contains information that really is useful and/or makes me stop and think. Here is one such e-mail worth posting for all of us to consider.
THE SITUATION
In Washington, DC, at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, this man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2,000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.
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Beauty, Communication, Consciousness, Growing Edges, Joy, Life
A colleague was complaining that “Obama is bashing business” and it wasn’t fair. He plans on punishing those who don’t support business by “voting the %^$*#&’s out of office.” I don’t see it that way. What I see is that business owners and C-suite folks need to think about this a bit more. Here’s why. Successful politicians are successful because they READ (as opposed to LEAD) the public. Rarely will a politician last if s/he gets too far out in front of the people.
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Communications, Leadership, Management, Opinion
We’re big on peanut butter in our home. As the saying goes, “Peanut butter goes with everything.” The preferred peanut butter is natural – the kind that you have to stir because the oil separates. We put it on pancakes and top it off with maple syrup (the real kind). We make peanut butter and banana sandwiches. We’re known to put breakfast bacon on a piece of toast spread liberally with peanut butter.
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Leadership, Prioritizing, tasks
For the layperson, understanding the meaning of quantum physics and relativity is usually a significant challenge. And it mostly winds up being incomprehensible. I don’t pretend to understand the details and I know that the even at a high level quantum concepts and relativity are often beyond my full understanding. So what does this have to do with business?
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Culture, Fresh Thinking, Growing Edges, Leadership, Management, Uncertainty, World View
Why is it that we seem to have to keep learning the same lessons over? Oh, I’m not talking about each of us as individuals, although that is sometimes true for us too. I’m talking about our organizations. We seem to keep solving the same problems that have been solved before. Why do we do that?
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Communication, Leadership, Management, Mentoring
