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With a clot the size of a golf ball in her head, Jill Bolte Taylor’s work at Harvard’s brain research center got personal. Her stroke left her without the use of her left hemisphere. She lost the basic analytical functions like her ability to speak, understand numbers or letters. Surgery and eight years of recovery [...]
While we will continue to share amazing stories about what people are doing on sabbaticals, there is also inspiration in how people factor in financial reality and still manage to soar into a sabbatical experience. Even when salary and benefits continue, the money for one’s dream sabbatical might not exactly be floating around in [...]
Peggy Noonan’s Declarations column in the Wall Street Journal stays pretty political, but yesterday (6/21-22/2008) she tackled the sadness felt at the death of American television journalist, Tim Russert. While the media coverage on Tim Russert was extensive, the messages were also extremely consistent.
For four days, we were told how to live a well-lived [...]
Bud Bilanich, “The Common Sense Guy”, in his blog, “Vacation Time is a Great Time to Establish Yourself,” presents your co-worker’s vacation as THE opportunity of a professional lifetime for YOU – who will not be on vacation. Simply by volunteering to take on some of his work, you’ll be growing your skills – [...]
As business sabbaticals garner more interest and experience steady growth, the benefits touted are largely on the back end – after the individual returns. Almost uniformly, employees return to their jobs feeling renewed, committed, more engaged and provides plenty of cross-training opportunities for the employees who pick up the slack. The freedom to explore [...]
With the Allegheny Mountains in summer glory, the Tau Kappa Epsilon class of ’58 gathered at Penn State University last week. I attended with my husband with expectations of a bad chicken dinner in the company of people called TKE’s with whom I don’t have much in common. I was, after all, tuning in to [...]
If you want to improve as a leader, make sure you do some following. I learn more about excellent leadership – what it looks like, how it feels and pays off – as a board member of a non-profit, volunteer at beach clean-up and in a wetsuit. Books about leadership, content loaded and [...]