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11
May

Lean In to the Moment

Unless you have been under a business rock, you are aware that the CEO of Facebook, Sherly Sandberg, has a new best selling book, Lean In.  It is a personal story of her career success, mixed with some broad general advice.  There is one piece of advice she shared that my then executive Stanford MBA...
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24
Sep

Finding My Voice – Part II

The difficult part of finding my voice is that I feel called to lovingly communicate differences (generally more than others wish I would – and I know that).  Our current political cycle has allowed me ample opportunity to practice communicating my opinion in a respectful way to someone or some institute that I feel is...
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07
May

Failure to Communicate

I think Linton Weeks has done an excellent job of explaining a major problem most of us are experiencing in every aspect of our daily lives in his NPR article What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate.  I recommend you read the whole article…but these excerpts might give you a flavor for the article: “It...
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08
Feb

Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders | Video on TED.com

Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders Video on TED.com It is hard not to be following Sherly Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, given the pending IPO. I have been researching her since reading an article in the NY Times last week. Very gracious woman. Very sound advice. And I like that I...
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07
Oct

Trust me there is a rainbow

On a routine outing in Las Vegas this week I was stopped in my tracks by a rainbow on the horizon.  I quickly took a photo of it with my cellphone, and uploaded to Facebook.  I doubted anyone could see the actual rainbow so I captioned it:  Trust me, there is a rainbow. A dear friend,...
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18
May

Out of Office Auto-Reply

I am going to Barcelona for a week!  We are calling it a ‘revenge trip’.  We are going courtesy of all the ‘points’ we accumulated financing our failed business.  Trust me, I do hope this is a ‘trip of a lifetime.’  I will be electronically disconnected and a smile comes on my face just thinking about it.  Of...
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