Category: Ideas
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The tribes we lead
This was a great video. Take a look and tell me what you think. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/lang/eng/seth_godin_on_the_tribes_we_lead.html
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Captivate People, Cultivate Leadership
As I read about leadership – I’m seeing that the subtext really is about change or making a difference. It takes movement or leadership to make some of these changes happen. Let’s find a need and meet it. I don’t always read the subtext. I don’t know if you…
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Taking people to Naples
Yesterday, we went to the Getty Villa in Malibu with the Student Senate from my school. The Getty Villa was a beautiful museum of Getty’s antiquities collection. He wanted to rebuild and recreate the Villa de Papiri – an ancient house in Herculaneum – sitting halfway up the slope…
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Cultivating Leadership
I came across a cool blog – in fact, it is called MetaCool –http://metacool.typepad.com/metacool/innovation/. The title of the post was – instead of managing, try cultivating. It was a great post. Diego Rodriguez used the metaphor of cultivating a garden – how one can cultivate innovation instead of managing.…
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Leadership – in your shoes
You can’t know how it is to be in leadership until you’ve walked in the leader’s shoes. It’s easy to pick on leaders, and as a leader, it’s easy for people to pick on you. They cannot know what it’s like to lead until they walk in your shoes. You…
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Manage Time
I heard a quote that I’ve been wrestling with. There is an infinite amount of work.There is a finite amount of time. Instead of managing my work, I need to learn to manage my time. But what time do I have to wrestle with it?
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Creating a Movement
I just read an article that said about power and leadership: But leaders of social-sector organizations have to get things done without the same levers of power available to leaders in the business sector. Business owners and chief executives have had a tremendous amount of concentrated power. They don’t really…
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The jurisdiction of the neighborhood
There was a time when I would be disciplined by my parents. I would be disciplined by my aunts. I would be disciplined by grandma. I would be disciplined by my neighbors. In fact, I honored and respected them enough so that when they disciplined me, I did not question…
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Tribal consciousness
What does that even mean? Back in the day and I guess to be fair – in some parts of the world, individuals and groups would identify themselves to a tribe. This tribal consciousness gave them a sense of belonging and identity. A few months ago, I was trying to…
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