The words both start with L-E-A, but can leadership really be learned?
As a consultant, I have the pleasure and challenge to work with a variety of different teams. I am a team of one, but I collaborate with agency teams (such as Happy Cog, whom I’m working with on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum project), [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Realizations'
Can Leadership Be Learned?
March 6th, 2010 · Comments · Consulting, Strategy
I admit it: I’m always five minutes late. And it stops now.
February 10th, 2010 · Comments · Pain, Productivity
I was just smacked in the face by a recent blog post by my dear friend Jeffrey Zeldman, Free advice: show up early, about the consequences of being late to client meetings. Why? Because it forced me to finally fess up to one of my major flaws: I’m always five minutes late.
Sure, five minutes [...]
Tags:Clients·Inspiration·Pain·Pioneers·Productivity·Realizations
I am (more than?) a bunch of adjectives
January 16th, 2010 · Comments · Digressions
I think like a lot of us, I have an incessant need to see myself reflected by others in order to believe that I am who I think I am. Positively and negatively. I save adjectives like souvenirs, reminders of when I got them and from whom. I wear them as badges, as armor. When [...]
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Happy New Year to You
January 5th, 2010 · Comments · Digressions
2010 is here and I can hardly believe it. A new decade. A new period of time to look forward to with high expectations and even higher hopes.
At this time….
…ten years ago, I was starting my last semester of high school and looking forward to the freedom of college.
…five years ago, I was starting [...]
Darlin’ Do Not Fear
November 3rd, 2009 · Comments · Digressions
Sometimes the perfect song just finds you.
When I arrived in my own set of clothes
I was half a world away from my home
And I was hunted by the wolves and I was heckled by the crows
Darlin’ do not fear what you don’t really know
Alongside my innocence I laid in bed awake
Conflicted in these chains with [...]
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