Forgive me my lack of posting throughout this pregnancy, and especially now. I’ve been temporarily inconvenienced by one of my late pregnancy symptoms: terribly swollen hands. The swelling makes typing painful and too much typing causes my fingers to go numb. Therefore, I’m putting my self on keystroke rest until little Henry arrives and the […]
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My son just finished his first season as a little league player. That’s a common statement to hear from the mother of a young boy, yet it is made truly special if you know that my son, Teddy, has spina bifida. This spring, Teddy and several of his friends got their first chance to play
Extra Medium via Compfight Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is a dream. All you have is today, now, this moment. What are you going to do with it?
Andrew Mason via Compfight A bad myth rampant in our organizations is the myth that there is no set-up time to intellectual work. We schedule meetings on disparate topics in one hour chunks back to back and somehow think we are going to get our best thinking. Or, worse, we know we won’t get our
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A patient’s family should not tell the doctor where to cut, but they can and should measure him by his results.” There is an important distinction between being closed to feedback from your customers and refusing to maintain your professional distance. Daily you might see people of all organizational levels running into other people’s professional
When I was growing up we often hosted my mom’s extended family at our house for holidays. It was a running joke in our family to guess how my mom would have rearranged her living room furniture. We didn’t have much money, so my mom would redecorate by moving around the things we already owned.
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If you don’t know who Frederick Winslow Taylor is, you should. He is the father of scientific management and much of his thinking controls our organizations today. When Thoreau said, “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root,” he was probably thinking of people in
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