This past Sunday my cousin Avi ran his first triathlon (you can read all about it here: http://asthmathlon.blogspot.com/ ) which, as many people who run such races around this time of year know, involves a long period of intense training. It’s not just an event… it’s a process. The effects of a triathlon training process [...]
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As part of a course I’m doing, I recently read an article, “From Buy-in to In-put : Get the Best from Staff through Appreciative Inquiry” by Bert Troughton. (Download the article from here: http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/uploads/Buy-in%20to%20In-put.bt.4.05.doc …and much more on the “AI” process from at the Case Western website, http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/ ) The more I read about the Appreciative Inquiry [...]
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Ten years ago today, I was flying out of Boston Logan airport, only to have my flight interrupted with an emergency landing in Syracuse as all air traffic came to a halt. Apparently I had been just a few gates shy of being on the wrong plane. At the time, it was my hope that [...]
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One-Sentence Summary: Follow-through on a task is more likely to happen if you make following through a part of the intent and visualization/planning of the task. Summary-by-Wordplay/Metaphor: A golf player includes the effort and intent of following through as part of their initial swing. The Rest of This Is Mere Commentary: Follow-through — the discipline of verifying that something [...]
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Some of the best advice in life cannot be printed.
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At a recent visit to MoMA in New York, I came across some best selling posters inspiring 19th and 20th century artworks for which I’ve regained an appreciation. Regained, that is, after having my deep enjoyment of art become atrophied during my years as a wall decor peddler / online retail gunslinger. Some of these works [...]
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