The Lost Art of Gratitude

I had one of those lucky, unex­pect­ed con­ver­sa­tions last night with a cou­ple of col­leagues, Bob Berntson, the Man­ag­ing Part­ner of Berntson Porter & Com­pa­ny and Annalee Luh­man, Learn­ing & Lead­er­ship Man­ag­er for the Port of Seat­tle. As our talk moved from recap­ping the year to recap­ping big­ger parts of our lives, we found our­selves… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Lost Art of Gratitude

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A Wish

And here is a wish for the sea­son and beyond sent to me by my good friend, Mike Piper. The wish comes from: Rachel Car­son: Pre­serv­ing a Sense of Won­der. “A child’s world is fresh and new and beau­ti­ful, full of won­der and excite­ment. It is our mis­for­tune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision,… Con­tin­ue read­ing A Wish

Thanks.…

I want to express my appre­ci­a­tion to Chris Cor­ri­g­an for his help and feed­back to me as I get start­ed with blog­ging. Very cool. Check out his site: Park­ing lot: Liv­ing in open space — it’s excep­tion­al. If you are vis­it­ing my site and have ideas, sug­ges­tions, feed­back, please let me know — I wel­come… Con­tin­ue read­ing Thanks.…

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Accountability

I am con­vinced that “account­abil­i­ty” is one of the tough­est, most con­fus­ing words in the Eng­lish lan­guage. It’s tough because it is thrown around so fre­quent­ly and eas­i­ly as a catch-all crit­i­cism when things don’t go well. A mis­take on the pro­duc­tion floor? Hmmm. Must be lack of account­abil­i­ty by a machine oper­a­tor, or maybe… Con­tin­ue read­ing Account­abil­i­ty

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