All Entries in the "Personal Development" Category
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… is [...]
AAHSA & ABHOW Advocate Making Homes For Your Mother & Fathers
Get involved in aging- yours and others. Advocating, working, and serving in the industry for the aging is rewarding work and because I (Dr. Joel Martin, the one in the middle) am an aging Baby Boomer, there is a bit of a self-serving aspect to it. My sphere of influence is the ABHOW Corporate [...]
The Responsible Life — A Positive Start to the Year
So how do we live the responsible life. To begin with we can start with having purposeful conversations. Conversation that produce an understanding of what is really import to each of us.
Create Your Tribe & Change the World
Seth Godin speaks at TED on changing the world. If there’s a challenge you think needs fixing, take the time to view this video. He outlines a perspective that makes sense in this techie world we live in. It makes sense in the human dynamic of changing the world to be a better place. And [...]
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.
The Facebook Culture
Facebook is a powerful, fun, and informative social networking tool. It is also being used by employers to vet their prospective hires.
In real life, people hire and fire based on info they get through the grapevine—in other words, through their social networks: “You’re looking for a programmer? My brother-in-law’s the best programmer on the planet! [...]
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 you [...]
A Leader’s Clarity: Conviction, Perspective, Purpose, Vision
Words for leaders from Brian W. Kenney, Human Capital Performance Consultant, Austin, Texas: All successful leaders have a strongly held set of core beliefs and values that act as a lens through which they view the world around them. They have no doubts about the importance of these values and it is our value [...]
Major demo shift impacts corporate cultures.
The United States will soon be a majority-minority nation: “The 2010 Census will be one of the most important censuses in U.S. history. The 2010 census will show that the country is on a path to becoming a majority minority nation. This unparalleled historic event will have wide-ranging implications including the impact on minority political [...]
What Is A Human Being?
Perhaps this is an odd question because we think that the answer is self evident, like water is wet. What we’ve been told is that one of the elements that helps to distinguish human beings from most other creatures are the set of connectors in our brains called mirror neuron. Identifying this system in the [...]
