Great Leaders gain authority by giving it away. James B. Stockdale #3 The Law of Process: Leadership skill is built one day at a time. #12 The Law of Empowerment-Empower others to lead. I don’t recall a great deal about my second and third grade years regarding lessons in leadership. When I got to fourth […]
Leadership is influence, pure and simple. (LAW #2) A leader’s potential is determined by those closest to him. (Law #11) John Maxwell My kindergarten teacher tried to flunk me. Really, she did try, only it was not an option as kindergarten itself was an option. There was no requirement to ‘pass’ kindergarten to go to […]
” I knew exactly how I was going to do it….and didn’t come out that way at all” All of us at some time or another! Through all my years of training as an actor and studying how to train actors, I discovered a path to peak performance that I feel is world class. […]
Fate chooses your relationships, you choose your friends. Jacques Delille Ah, choice and fate. Two fascinating concepts about which endless things can be spoken and written and contemplated. From the great Greek Tragedies to Wheel of Fortune, we experience the impact of both. Choice seems to empower me. Knowing I have choice seems to make […]
A friend is a person with whom I maybe sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. Ralph Waldo Emerson Ok , on this series of blogs, I am supposed to start, write, title, add a pic and post within 30 minutes. That hasn’t really been happening. I tend to search for quotes for way too […]
Wishing: In gladness and in safety, May all beings be at ease. Whatever living beings there may be; Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none, The great or the mighty, medium, short or small, The seen and the unseen, Those living near and far away, Those born and to-be-born, May all beings be at […]
My lemon tree blossoming like my life…the sweetest fragrance promising delicious fruits to come. Lisa Dalton Loss is such a devastating thing in our lives and it can come in many forms. In my blog two days ago about Leadership in chaos, I was thinking about the loss we experience when a world we hold […]
Have you constantly created an alluring future in your story? Jett Ferrell with thanks to Craig Volk, writer. The other day when I was searching for a topic to discuss, looking for a quote, and entered Four Pillars of Drama, another article popped up-The Four Pillars of Dramatic Writing ( for novelists too!). I was […]
Many people live in a state of eternal drama and chaos and think they can get away with this by labeling it as Passion. Bob Burg I see an organization torn by drama. I am deeply saddened. I want my organization […]
Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew. Guillaume Apollinaire Where in them are they invited to step to the edge? Who calls them there? Who in them calls them there? Who are They? Who in me is […]