I fear that I was correct. Many employees are astutely observing issues and challenges- threats- to the mission and are not sharing them with their supervisors and managers. This is a terrible thing. With holding of this information is dangerous to all parties including the organization and it’s mission because feedback is the breakfast of [...]
Im old enough to remember when the USA used to make stuff. We made cars and planes, widgets and gadgets and everything in between. Now we dont make much. Instead, we converted to a service economy and developed innovations in medicine, technology and more- all based on the capital of thinking, creating and utilization of [...]
Talk about COURAGE… Touring around Philadelphia’s Independance Hall today, I was completely awe inspired at the amount of courage it must have taken for a small group of passionate individuals to create a political revolution and resultant form of government known to person-kind. Imagine the amount of sacrifice and risk that these Founding Fathers, and [...]
Had an interesting experience today that was both meaningful and profound for me. I needed to confront someone on a matter- someone who is very dear to me- who I dearly love and who unintentionally had made a poor decision leading to tension between us, hard feelings on my part and a bit of ‘guilt’ [...]
im at a wonderful and lovely boutique hotel on the river in downtown chicago after doing work at the merchandise mart nearby. it really is lovely with european flare and style – outside tables with umbrellas, really cute. however, check in was abominable. rude, cold, inappropriate, inattentive – like they poured ‘white out’ and totally [...]
we cant solve all that we face… .but we can never solve anything unless and until we face it. what are you ‘avoiding’ dealing with? we often avoid things that we dont have the answer at hand. it’s frustrating not having the answer and we sure dont want to hold onto these issues and take [...]
It’s funny. For some reason, people seem to assume that having a Positive Mental Attitude means that we should ignore or suppress the negatives in our lives. The net result of that assumption is this: the negative situations do not go away. In fact, like mushrooms, they tend to grow in the dark. Have you [...]