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Category: Ideas

  • Integrated Selves and Identity

    Each one of you is an integrated self – every single self that you’ve created – every single self that is truly you – each self is integrated.  The sum total is your identity.  Each individual part self – could also be your identity.  Each piece by itself or in…

  • Visual Processing Tool

    Are you a visual processor?  I am.  I have all of these mind maps with boxes and lines and arrows all over them.  That’s how I process.  Some people can create a linear outline – one step, then another step.  My processing is all over the place.  I typically create…

  • Speak Into My Drive

    Today, DC and I drove from the Bay Area, through Monterey and Carmel by the Sea, and on to Morro Bay.  I tweeted/status updated about our drive today and I had friends speak into my drive. I had friends from the Bay Area tell us where we should eat.  We…

  • Exploitative Entrepreneurship

    I heard @mollywood say this on a podcast.  It caught my attention.  I was also listening to another podcast-and I can’t remember which one-where they were talking about different types of entrepreneurship.  There is entrepreneurship, a good one, that is beneficial and helps not just the entrepreneur but the industry…

  • Family and Identity

    Whether you have a close family or a disconnected family, it’s impossible to separate your identity from your family.  In fact – no matter what you’re family is like – strong, dysfunctional (and every family is), big family, small family, they shape your identity. Whether you like it or not;…

  • Attend Any Conference That You Want

    ….by simply following the hash tags for the conference on Twitter. Okay, so maybe you miss out on the human element.  You don’t get to talk or touch the people that are there.  There is tons of value in the hallway conversations at any conference – the coffee breaks –…

  • Thinking In Twitter Ticker Tape

    I’m starting to think in terms of a Twitter Ticker Tape.  You know what I mean?  I am a pretty visual processor so I picture the actual “tweets” in my mind as I start processing through an idea or presentation.  It is a very asynchronous method of visual or mental…

  • InterculturalistIQ.com

    A few weeks ago, I posted about my friend Scott Reitz.  It was a post entitled Smell Like Jesus.  I had been talking to him about his ideas and setting up a blog.  Please check it out.  Here’s the shortcut for you lazy people that can’t type it in http://interculturalistiq.com.…

  • LL33: A Picture of Your Words

    Once again, these are leadership lessons that I’m learning – my leadership lessons. At every organization, there is a stated mission statement, and then the mission statement that is carried out.  There is the vision that is carefully crafted and branded on all of your print material – then there’s…

  • Workaholic Identity

    work·a·hol·ic (wûrk-hôlk, -hlk) n. One who has a compulsive and unrelenting need to work. – a person obsessively addicted to work. I’ve heard people talk about being workaholics like it was a good thing – but it isn’t so much a good thing.  I had a boss tell me one…

  • Blend Science and Art

    It’s so sad to me that we have to Blend Science and Art.  It’s not sad that we have to blend it, but that it was “de-blended” in the first place.  I mean, you can’t really blame anyone for it – although we could point to a few things.  At…

  • Texting Is For Men

    I heard this on a podcast last week.  I don’t think they were saying that women shouldn’t text or that it’s not for women-not at all.  What they were talking about was the fact that the text just has the words and the info, and that suits the conversation style…