Mother’s Day

I vis­it­ed my 98-year old moth­er yes­ter­day. She lives in a nurs­ing home and is very well cared for. She has a love­ly room to her­self with pic­tures and books and mem­o­ra­bil­ia to sur­round her. When we arrived she was nap­ping and when she saw it was me she said after a few moments, “Get… Con­tin­ue read­ing Mother’s Day

The Power of Accessible Leadership

[Update for June 3, 2010: Based on feed­back, I have sig­nif­i­cant­ly revised this paper. The mate­r­i­al is large­ly the same, but it has been re-ordered to an extent, cut in some places, ampli­fied in oth­ers. It is now titled: “Fol­low­ing Self: How Lead­ers Can Stop Defend­ing and Start Liv­ing Their Own High­er Cause.” The link… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Pow­er of Acces­si­ble Leadership

Losing Weight

It so hap­pens that I’m par­tic­i­pat­ing in Weight Watch­ers these days. So far I have lost about 26 pounds, and intend to lose more. I attend the meet­ings with my wife every Sat­ur­day morn­ing. When we first start­ed attend­ing, I thought I would be bored.  I have been any­thing but. What I have been fas­ci­nat­ed by… Con­tin­ue read­ing Los­ing Weight