From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Have We Met?

September 10, 2009

Here’s a trend I’ve noticed when getting introduced to people via technology requiring the written word—email, Linked In, Twitter.  When I first introduce myself, people will often reply something to the effect of “nice to ‘meet’ you.”  The quotation marks around the word meet are significant.  The meaning I derive from those quotations marks are [...]

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The Daily Ordinary Thing

September 10, 2009

In her 30 Day Blogging Challenge Sandra Martini asserts that to move your business forward, you have to “get in the habit of doing one ordinary thing each and every day.”  Well, that seems simple.  Or is it?  The online Merriam-Webster’s definition of “ordinary” is the regular or customary condition or course of things.  So [...]

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30 Days of Blogging

September 10, 2009

During my 30 Days of Tweeting Experiment in May, I jumped into Twitter with both feet and very low expectations. As it turned out, I loved Twitter. One of the delights of tweeting was discovering the blogsphere and its many opinionated, generous, insightful writers contained within. Before I knew it, I had set up a [...]

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Join the Carnival

September 8, 2009

Like most people, I’m constantly looking for ways to stay on top of current issues in my profession and the general business world at large.  So I was delighted to discover the blogsphere’s “carnival” format.  Essentially, a blog carnival is a compilation of blog posts connected by a common thread. Carnival topics that interest me [...]

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What Stories Are in Your Bedrock?

September 2, 2009

In a recent blog post, Mary Jo Asmus asked, “What are the stories we tell ourselves?”  It was a simple question, yet one rich with possibility.  In my years of creating leadership development programs, one of the “stories” that continually surfaces with leaders is the story of “I need to do X for my direct [...]

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