Category: Ideas
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School As Home
The college school year is done. There are a handful of students on campus, but most of them are leaving for school-related trips this week. It’s a great thing, and there is this sense of emptiness about the place. I can’t help but think about our students that went home…
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LL 32: An Opportunity to be Amazing
I haven’t written a leadership lesson lately – although I’m learning tons about leadership. Last week, I asked my server at a restaurant if she was amazing. She came to get my order and I ask, “How amazing are you?” My main motivation was to order something off menu –…
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What You Read In Books
I just bought the book Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinmeier Hansson. They are the 37 Signals guys. They’ve created some pretty good stuff. In their book, they talk about how they have built their company and sold software and ideas to millions – but they didn’t do it…
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Redeem Time
How do you waste time? I mean, how do you redeem your time? How many of you go to weekly meetings – where the meetings are over 30 minutes? I go to lots of them. I’m not saying that meetings are a waste of time – especially if it’s part…
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Smell Like Jesus Award
Years ago – my good friend Scott Reitz gave away the “Smell Like Jesus Award.” The tagline was – “You got the towel. Now here’s the soap.” Hahahaha. We both taught at a previous institution where the administration would give away towels representing servant leadership and Jesus washing his disciples…
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Milestone Thinking
What is it about milestone thinking that gets everyone all pensive about their future? It could be graduation and the future or an anniversary and the past. It could be a birthday and the thought of last year, the present, and the next year to come. Milestones are cool. We…
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It’s Now Truly the World-Wide Web
For the first time, there will be web addresses that will have non-latin characters in it. Check out the story here. I mean, how do we come to call it the world-wide web in the first place when it clearly is so english-centric? I guess it’s kinda the same thing…
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The Art of What You Do
What is it that you do? For some people, that’s quite a hard question. Some don’t even don’t know what they do – much less the artistic or creative aspect of what they do. I was reading today about the creative energy that encompasses the work that we do. No…
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What You Take For Granted
Did you know that you don’t know what you take for granted? You know why? You take it for granted – that’s why. When I first heard this, I thought that this concept was too simple and almost stupid, but it has profound implications. Taking something for granted – whatever…
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Your Body Thinks
I’m still trying to figure this idea out, but deep within your subconscious, there is this ability for the body to think – by itself. It’s this idea of the somatic self or your somatic identity. I did a search for this idea – and I came up with this…
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