All Entries in the "Radical Leadership Development" Category
Your breasts or your life!
This post has questions and a few tips on that. I am not a doctor. (Photo Dr. Michele Y. Halyard, Mayo Clinic) I am a cancer conqueror – a term I prefer over survivor. I’m wondering whether women especially Black/African American women are choosing not to be treated, diagnosed, or have a mammogram, change life styles, and do other things to take care of themselves and their bodies out of their fear, family history, cultural beliefs about hospitals, or myths about the Big C… Tips include creative expression and more.
Open source for the mind on Culture & Tribes.
Why should culture be important to you? Because it’s the invisible glue that holds a group of people together – a business, an organization, any group, your family, your online community, etc. Culture is the system of agreements, the experiences, the beliefs, values, attitudes, that are subscribed to, that are bought into. A group so aligned is a “tribe” (aka community). Here’s open source knowledge for the mind – a free audio book on “Tribal Leadership” about organizational culture.
FraserNet CEO Commits $350 Million To Help Black Students Build Their Personal Networks
George C. Fraser, Founder and Chairman of FraserNet, Inc. and the PowerNetworking Conference makes nearly a $350 million dollar commitment to help Black students build their personal support network of relationships. The program is entitled; TheYESNet; The Youth Empowered to Succeed Network. The Network’s goal is to provide 1 million Black students (ages 17-25) with free and easy access to critical contacts and other networking products and services over the next 5 years. A student membership is valued at $349 each, but will be underwritten by FraserNet, and provided free of charge to students 17-25 years old.
3rd Positively Powerful Women Celebrate! Creates History
“How many of you give to yourself as much as you give to others? What is the secret of your success? How do you find balance in your life? If you had a magic wand, how would you change the world?” Author, renowned international speaker, and president of Triad West Inc., Dr. Joel Martin will [...]
“Americans are angry!”
Am I the only one who feels annoyed when someone says they speak for all Americans? The most recent generalized statement I heard was “All Americans are angry.” There was also the one that began “All Americans feel ______” you fill in the blanks. Sojourner Truth said, “Ain’t I a Woman” well today I am [...]
Extreme Leadership: On Coaching Trust
If you feel your faults and defects prevent you from seeing the faults and defects of others, remember, you may be the only contact with God someone may have today. Be proud of that.” Iyanla Vanzant I read that quote this morning. It is from Iyanla’s One Day My Soul Just Opened Up. One Day… [...]
Race Relations and the Illusion of Difference
Like Katrina, the faltering economy has placed everyone in the same boat and in some parts of the United Stat es this has served to break up some racial barriers. Very few families have been able to the escape this recession with its’ massive job loses and the devaluation of stock portfolios and property values. [...]
To Whose Knowledge does a Belief Belong?
Most people still believe that “Breakfast is the Most Important Meal of Day” and that was probably true when it was first said.
Leadership – Take A Step Forward – Or Else
So if we are not going forward and more importantly making certain that we are taking others with us, then we are standing still, watching life happen to us, victims of your own inaction.
You may hate this message! But if you manage people read it anyway! Plz.
Dan Pink’s articles on business and technology have appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Wired. He worked previously as Vice President Al Gore’s chief speechwriter from 1995-97, and before that as an aide to Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. (Source) Recently Dan Pink gave this talk at TED. If [...]
