A Thousand Voices in My Head

I hear the voices yet words on paper escape me.  I hit a wall of sorts with reaching 100 posts.  All at once I think about the next 1,000 posts and this has stopped me cold.  The voices get louder.   Yet the words on paper do not appear. No worries.  When in doubt JUST WRITE and... Continue Reading →

What Came First … The Writer or The Leader

As I approach 100 posts in my young blogging life, I wonder ... am I a leader who writes or a writer who leads? Maybe a silly question.   I am a business director with responsibility for important work partnering with many terrific employees.  I am a leader. Yet ... That voice again. I am a writer. ... Continue Reading →

Children of the Earth and the Sky

A day for perspective.   Words from the late Carl Sagan.  A reminder that indeed, We Move Together. As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky. In our tenure on this planet we've accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage — propensities for aggression and ritual, submission to leaders, hostility to outsiders... Continue Reading →

True Leaders Are Hardly Known

In the spirit of servant leadership comes a beautiful vision of leadership from author Ursula K. Le Guin. She was a favorite author of mine as a child.  Her Earthsea books kept me up late at night dreaming of discovering magic for myself.  I continue to look. Ursula K. Le Guin wrote on many topics... Continue Reading →

Do Not Surrender Fierceness

I am reading a John Steinbeck book called, Travels with Charley, In Search of America.   The book chronicles a journey John Steinbeck took across America in the early 1960's.  He was older and thought he lost his connection to people.  Born and raised in the fertile agricultural area of California, he wrote amazing tales of... Continue Reading →

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