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Leadership
Socrates Was On To Something
Both of my kids are really into the stretchy bracelet craze. On the way to the grocery store today, my nine year old son remarked that one of his bracelets looked liked Medusa. Feigning ignorance, I said, “Medusa? Who’s that?” He replied, “You know, Mom, the mythological character who had snakes on top of her…
Game-Changers Welcome Resistance
This morning, while preparing for the work day, I had a random thought and quickly posted it to Twitter: Props to Joan Koerber-Walker for starting the #BeOriginal hashtag on Twitter. Judging by the number of retweets, I’d say this tweet had legs! Or should I say “wings?” To go beyond the 140 characters with that…
Are Your Employees Going the Extra Mile?
Leaders, when’s the last time you saw your employees go the extra mile? Today? Last week? Last month? The photo at right was taken by Terry P., the Library Media Supervisor at my kids’ elementary school. (Back in the day, we called them “librarians”.) Shortly before this picture was taken, Terry had been doing an…
Making Decisions, 100 Years at a Time
I’ve been watching reruns of the Ken Burns series The National Parks on PBS. It’s an in-depth look at the birth and evolution of our country’s national park system. Called “America’s best idea” by writer and historian Wallace Stegner, men both famous ( Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir )and lesser-known (Stephen Mather , Charles Young) were…