Casual Fridays

Last night, I attended a meeting held by my daughter’s teacher. She was explaining the structure of the class and led us through some sample exercises she uses with the students.
Occasionally, she called upon us parents for volunteers to read or give answers.
I was stunned by the silence and awkward glances downward.
The teacher shared [...]

“A sense of privilege is what motivates us to finish the mission.”
Pastor Paul Taylor, Liberty Church
Do you feel privileged?
Do your employees or colleagues?

Challenging thoughts from Brian at d’bug.
After reading this, ask yourself:
Am I willing to sacrifice in order to have time to be the best?
What do I need to sacrifice?
What do I believe should NOT be sacrificed?

MIT has a great resource including free videos of presentations made at MIT by an impressive line-up of speakers. Jack Welch, Jeffrey Bezos and Carly Florina just to name a few.
I’ve known about this for a while and yet I’ve only watched one presentation video.
If these speakers were making appearances here in Tulsa, I’d [...]

In his popular ‘06 TED talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes an inspiring, and entertaining, argument that we are educating the creativity out of our children.
It’s not hard to see how corporations are on creativity killing sprees as well.
Here are the top 10 signs you’re killing creativity:
1. You Preach ‘Safety First’
If you are always opting for [...]

I was working on a post for last week, but wanted it to be spend more time on it. (faulty ‘perfectionistic’ thinking on my part)  I’ll post it Friday.
To make up for it, here’s an article I found on optimizing your book reading experience:
How to Get the Most Out of Your Books
I read quite a [...]

I’ve loved, I’ve laughed and cried
I’ve had my fill, my share of losing
And now, as tears subside, I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that
And may I say, not in a shy way,
“Oh, no, oh, no, not me, I did it my way“
- Frank Sinatra, My Way
As popular as it is, [...]

I love these 12 principles of self-leadership from Rosa Sayat Lifehacker.
This is my favorite
5. Learn to love ideas and experiments. Turn them into pilot programs that preface impulsive decisions. Everything was impossible until the first person did i

Management Impact
Wednesday, Feb 28th 2007
BMA Tulsa Luncheon (11:30 -1:00)

Jack Hayhow of Opus Communications
Focusing on the four key activities of all great managers, Jack will show how great managers provide employees what they need to increase productivity and profit.
Jack and his book, Wisdom of the Flying Pig, were featured on Brand Autopsy exactly one year ago [...]

We’re on the lookout for wolves.
You know… back-stabbers, saboteurs, spies and just plain evil-doers.
We suspect they’re among us. The wolf in sheep’s clothing.
But there’s something much more dangerous in our midst, also masquerading as sheep.
This “silent killer” of companies is much harder to find than the wolf. He wears the disguise well, even [...]