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Expectations Can Create Reality: On the Self-Fulfilling Nature of Social Stereotypes

Once, some social scientists, as they are wont to do, ran an experiment. They asked 51 women to chat on the phone

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Intelligent Criticism, Effective Feedback

How to give useful feedback? How to make a helpful observation that does not make a person defensive? I recently received some

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Yesterday you said Tomorrow

(The Second in a Series of Blogs Prodding, Pushing, and Poking You to Get Moving on Your Life Plan for Next

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Cheerfully Executing Plan B

“For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in

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Two Words

Two words of power, two words that trap. A young man sought out an aged mentor after a series of disastrous setbacks.

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Officers Eat Last

“Stewardship Leadership.” “Servant Leadership.” These terms speak of leadership as a trust, a fiduciary responsibility. At its highest meaning, leadership carries a

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Time to START…

Time to START… Time to start what? Time to start thinking about your roles and goals for the coming year. It is

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Choosing Your Reality

There is a story about a man piloting a small boat in an early morning deep fog on a large lake nestled

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Some people always find a way, some people always find an excuse!

A friend of mine told me about his trials and tribulations in completing a renovation project. He concluded his tales of contractor

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What do you look forward to?

Self-knowledge* can be an elusive goal. I find I still have “built-in” assumptions about myself that are untested or even untrue about

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We have wings we know not yet of…

“A recession is when your neighbor is out of work, a depression is when you are out of work.” We are living

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The Ten Wisest People I Know

This is a short post about a process, not a result. I ran across the phrase, “The Ten Wisest People I Know,”