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Archive for March, 2010
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Why is it so hard for all of us to get along? Why do we so often resemble the little kids in the school playground, either grabbing for what we want or sulking in the corner waiting for the teacher to save us? 
There is fascinating research about how behavior patterns are locked in our nervous system and how they come out to haunt us when we are stressed. It is time for us to “practice safe stress” and learn what our particular triggers are and how to keep them under control. It is also time for those of us in leadership positions to find new ways of handling workplace conflict by addressing the patterns that make us act like little kids. All leadership development programs should include a module on how patterns from our original organization, the family play out at work.
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Tags: behavior patterns, Business, Conflict resolution, Education and Training, Leadership, Leadership development, Management, Patterns, Safe Stress, Stress, Workplace conflict
Posted in Business, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Conflict resolution, Executive Teams, Leaders, Leadership, PatternAware, Patterns, Transformation, Workplace Relationships | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 29th, 2010
What if we spent more time looking for role models of kindness and altruism and less time looking at ego driven reality show folks who are all about me, me, me. What if in leadership development programs, team enhancement seminars, life coaching, executive coaching, and conflict resolution workshops we stopped looking at what doesn’t work and started to look at what does work. Would we all be the better for it?
 Children's Kindness
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Tags: Altruism, Conflict resolution, Executive Coaching, Health, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership development, neuropsychology
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Every so often you meet an elegant leader who stands far above most. That is the case with Canadian scientist David Suzuki. He is a world changer whose love of the environment, nature, the planet seems to ooze from every pore in his body.
Tags: Authentic, Collaboration, David Suzuki, Going Green, Leader, Nature, Patterns, Positive, Transformation, Workplace
Posted in Collaboration, Environment, Family, Going Green, Health, Leaders, Leadership, Patterns, Transformation | 7 Comments »
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Sandra Bullock and Jesse James have put Tiger and the other philanderers on the back page. Soon their story will be replaced by another couple that can’t make it (i.e. the relationship) work.
Tags: Conflict resolution, Family-Based Patterns, Human, Jesse James, Patterns, Relationships, Sandra Bullock, Tiger Wood, Vicitm
Posted in Accountability, Avoider, Communication, Conflict, Conflict resolution, Family, Media, Patterns, Victim | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
How much information is enough? Tiger Woods has been giving some interviews as he gets ready to restart his golf engine.
Tags: Celebrity, ESPN, Family, Golf, Good Morning America, Leadership, Leadership development, Patterns, Tiger Woods, Transformation, Truth
Posted in Accountability, Communication, Conflict, Family, Fear, Leadership, Patterns, Reflections, Transformation, Trust, Truth | No Comments »
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Ever get annoyed with someone and say, usually with indignation “Who do you think you are?” There is a new television series by that name that gives the question a whole new meaning.
Tags: Communication, family patterns, Genealogy, Ghana, Leadership, leadership programs, Patterns, Relationships, Sankofa, Trust
Posted in Communication, Diversity, Family, History, Leadership, Neuroscience, Patterns, Power, Reflections | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
 I’ll bet you see more people of every denomination wearing a bit of green today. Well, maybe the same color will be well represented on Earth Day. In any case, St. Patrick’s Day is known for parades, beer and lots of fun.
I did some research to find out who is the man behind the myth and there are quite a few interesting facts. At the age of 16 he was kidnapped by a band of pirates from his native land of the Roman British Isles and sold into slavery.
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Tags: Conflict, Holidays, Leadership, Legacy, Saint Patrick, Trust, Truth
Posted in Communication, Conflict, Cultural Diversity, Family, Fear, History, Holiday, Leadership, Trust, Truth | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
I am looking at the trees and the rich, brown, fertile earth I have not seen here at The Country Place, our Pocono retreat center, since, well, since before Christmas.
There was always a blanket of snow that finally the big rains this weekend washed away. It is warm enough to open a window and let the beginning smells of spring enter my nostrils. It is a rich, woodsy smell, the smell of green and growth.
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Tags: Brain, Business, Communication, Creativity, Health, Psychology
Posted in Business, Communication, Health, PatternAware, Reflections | 4 Comments »
Monday, March 15th, 2010
 Corey Haim, starred in a film called “Lost Boys”. The title, so prophetic, gives us pause to consider what we are doing, and that means all of us, to help kids grow into joyful, creative, and competent adults.
His friends are doing what friends do, looking for reasons and who to blame. There are plenty of places to point fingers. Corey Feldman, a good childhood pal and actor pointed toward Hollywood, stating it needs to take better care of child celebrities.
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Tags: Addiction, Celebrities, Celebrity, Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Heath Ledger, Lost Boys, Michael Jackson, People
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
There was an excellent article by renowned leadership expert Michael Maccoby in the Washington Post about the upside and downside of “stretch goals”.
The Olympics, a perfect example of watc hing individuals and teams push themselves, motivated by the desire to achieve greatness. What Maccoby suggested is that we need to look at the fine line between going toward a vision that is possible and one that can ultimately turn sour.
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Tags: Accountability, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Events, family patterns, Family-Based Patterns, Fear, Google, Health, History, Leadership, Michael Maccoby, Olympic, Sport, Summer Games, Summer Olympic Games, Team Building, Television, Washington Post
Posted in Coaching, Executive Teams, Family, Health, History, Leaders, Leadership, Neuroscience, PatternAware, Reflections, Team Building, The media, Transformation | 28 Comments »
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