Archive for March, 2008

Do you find your work meaningful? The Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin for December 2007 on pages 34-35, has an article on “How Business Schools Lost their Way.” HBS associate professor Rakesh Khurana has written a book that points out problems including, “… business schools on average are not providing some way for them (students) [...]

Geese flying in proper V formation can fly a 70% longer distance than a single goose flying alone. This happens because a goose creates an updraft that benefits the next goose in formation. Is there a lesson here? For the geese, resilience is based on being in formation. For us humans, we might translate that [...]

I am a Harvard MBA and also a Yale M.Div. Although I left church work in favor of leadership development consulting, I still am very altruistic and want to make a difference by helping nonprofits improve their leadership. Nonprofit leaders often struggle with leadership problems because they are not adequately trained. Very few have received [...]

One of the first steps in positive change is self-awareness, or mindfulness. First of all, we need to be aware of what we really want and what gets in the way of achieving it. Very often the barriers to change are internal, or emotional. The more aware we become of our internal, or emotional state, [...]