Wisdom isn’t a body of information. It’s the moral quality of knowing what you don’t know and figuring out a way to handle your ignorance, uncertainty, and limitation.
David Brooks, NY Times Columnist & Author
As a leader of a team who is stewarding communication of a movement, I have a tremendous challenge. As I’m helping lead through a “management-to-leadership” culture change of an organization, there are hurdles to jump over. One being to guard against being a manager and sticking to being a leader. The other is to make sure the risks we take as a group are the right ones...
I’m leading a team of an organization through some pretty significant change. Our team has been involved in print, inventory, sales, and publishing to print. The team has worked in the same office in the same city. This has been the case for over 100 years. Therefore, change is pretty significant in the larger perspective. We’ve had some major staff transitions...
As an avid Mac user for nearly twenty years, I’ve learned to play second fiddle to Microsoft products. I started out using Eudora Light for my mail client in the 90’s. Eventually Microsoft released Entourage. Second-rate. Finally with the release of OSX, we got Mail.app, iCal, and Address Book. Solid 1.0 releases. However, still behind where our Windows counterparts had...
A few months back, I was dropping off a friend at the Indianapolis airport and got all turned around in construction. I don’t live in Indy. I work there. And I’m new. Worse yet, the construction is near the airport. Without going into the details of my frustration, it wound up taking me about 90 minutes to do what should have taken 30-40. I was extremely frustrated as I was detoured...
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