Archive for the "Attracting" category

Can An Inspirational Email Help You Get What You Want?

I bet you get too many emails a day and may not have time for pithy-quote emails. That's okay. And if that's true I bet you might also just be working too hard for the results you get. And if that's true, then my wish for you is get to one of my workshops sometime [...]

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Leveraging Responsibility

It's day two of Agile 2007 in Washington DC. I met friend Ashley Johnson in the hotel lobby at 6:20AM with a promise of a sunrise jog around the Mall and the spectacular sites there. We established a plodding pace good enough to maintain conversation, and agreed to take turns expressing first our thoughts of [...]

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Inspire yourself

My family is preparing for our first European vacation as a family. What's cool is that it is months away but our island counter in the kitchen is stacked with assorted travel books on Ireland and London, our primary destinations. Amy and I spend from a few minutes to an hour each day reading and [...]

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Responsibility in the News

What do you learn about personal responsibility from reading the newspaper? The answer might make you change your mind about requiring your kids to keep up with current events!
Twice in recent weeks I've asked groups of professionals to scour major daily newspapers for articles, columns, and editorials reflecting on the topic of responsibility. The first [...]

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Dark Star Spouts Off on Unaccountability

 Blogger Dark Star spouts off today in an entry titled State of the Black Union: Accountability Ladder. The top of the entry was about four "ladder rungs" of unaccountability and four ladder rungs of accountability. The ladder metaphor certainly reminds me of the stage-wise nature of climbing the Responsibility Process™. I'll let you go read [...]

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