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Archives for May, 2008

Golden Giving: Volunteer Overseas With a Paycheck

While some of us are content to pick up a hammer to help Habitat in our communities, others have wanderlust wrapped around their desire to help others. During the last week, likely your heart has broken or at least felt a wee bit blubbery with news of the human suffering from tragedies in Myanmar [...]

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Let Them Work in Their Pajamas!

If your manager still thinks compressed work weeks, working from home, sabbatical programs and arranging your work around your life is a bunch of softy bull, ask her or him how much more misinformation forms their leadership credo.
Researchers Grzywacz and Casey at Wake Forest concluded clear and definite bottom-line benefits associated with just such [...]

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Wanna Be Better? Choose Simon.

We all have an oh-I-am-so-above-that side. So many of you will be appalled at this confession: I watch American Idol. Faithfully.
My husband just poked his head in my office, looked at me then at the TV. (It’s Wednesday, folks, America has voted. Someone is going to get ELIMINATED.) He pathetically shrugs his shoulders. Potentially there [...]

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Stuck in Self-Discovery

A few months from now Scott P. assumes the CEO position of a large health care facility. It’s a huge personal and professional goal – one he has earned, according to written comments from his colleagues and direct reports on his latest leadership assessment.
“Scott has our team working together and has been willing to change [...]

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Time and Your Soul

Ten years before Oprah found Eckhard Tolle and started extolling virtures of “the present moment” via 10 Monday night classes full of way too much SKYPING (you can down load them here,) Jacob Needleman moved many of us to examine just what the hell we were doing with the time in our lives and [...]

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