A questions first, “How badly do you want to get your work done?” If you knew that if your co-workers did not do what they had agreed to do and that your business would fail tomorrow. You might decide that there are some additional ways to motivate your team to meet the requirement. Sometimes we [...]
When the former CEO of a Fortune 100 company calls, people do what he wants especially if your a new venture backed hi-tech firm, or maybe not. The President, Bob, of this hi-tech firm, knew this particular CEO/Venture Capitalist who was a long standing investor in his company. But this CEO now turned venture capitalist [...]
Last night at the Marc Cohn concert (wrote “walking in Memphis”) he had such a personable way of being on stage. He literally wrote two songs on the fly that had amusings to him and the audience based on the interactions that were taking place. It got me thinking about what is happening in the [...]
These were the prophetic words of an AT&T executive when working with David Whyte in one of his Seminars. She was speaking to how these moments in life happen when you simply turn your head in a different direction and it seems something shifts and your life is instantly different. It struck me last night [...]
This line from the movie Indiana Jones (by the way don’t waist your money to see it) got me thinking, along with loss one of my closest friends Scott Richards, this week about how much time I have spent waiting. And not only spent the time waiting but wasting a great deal of that time [...]
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When faced with a difficult situation in education, or politics Howard Gardner offered the following suggestion of the “Three Jesse Test“. Take what ever the issue is and observe in your mind how Jesse Helms, Jesse Ventura, and Jesse Jackson would react to what ever the particular situation is. Because these three never seem to [...]
William E. Mayer is the Senior Partner of Park Avenue Equity Partners, a private equity firm, formerly professor and Dean of the College of Business and Management at the University of Maryland. When Bill gave his closing address at the Aspen Idea Festival he said, ‘It dawned on him several years ago that one needs [...]
This week President Clinton met with a small group at the Aspen Ideas Festival. He shared with the group why he holds Nelson Mandela in such high esteem. Nelson Mandela when set free after spending a third of his life imprisoned, he took a walk one last walk around the grounds February 11th, 1990, before [...]
When I spoke to Howard Gardner (Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, he has also written on topics such as creativity, leadership, professional responsibility, interdisciplinary study and the arts. Recent books include Making Good: How Young People Cope with Moral [...]
Last week at the Ideas Festival Danah Boyd was presenting on the information age. Danah is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at the University of California at Berkley. She is also a fellow at the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where she co-directs the Internet Safety Technical Task [...]
“The 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival will engage its participants in a variety of programs, tutorials, seminars and discussion events which together are guaranteed to charge the atmosphere with vibrant intellectual exchange. Think of it as a week-long summer university for the mind – remarkable lectures and classes across a stimulating array of topics. Imagine some [...]
In the mountains in Steamboat Colorado is a world class restaurant called Cafe Diva (970-871-0508). Not only can one learn about delivering world class service with divine dishes. You can learn how effective using your name repeatedly can be. If you go to Cafe Diva you may be lucky enough to be waited on by [...]
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