I love my 15 year-old Toyota Camry. She has been the BEST – dependable, fun to drive, and is good looking for a gal her age! But I’ve been taking her for granted and ignoring the signs that things were changing for her and she needed my attention. As Malcolm Gladwell points out in his [...]
October 6, 2009 – 12:34 pm
Sunday morning I was deeply touched as I viewed the poignant and moving film, The Corporal’s Diary. This documentary was produced and directed by Patricia Boiko a Seattle film-maker and physician who is over fifty. One of Patricia’s passions is to help others tell their stories. In this documentary she put faces on the on-going statistics and [...]
I so love it when I am jazzed, ready to roll and have lots on my plate! I set specific things I want to accomplish and jump in. That is what I did over the week before and after Easter. And, even though I meditated each morning, I am not sure that I took 10 [...]
October 23, 2008 – 12:48 pm
Last week the emails were flying between colleagues like fall leaves caught by a gust of wind. The issues at hand were getting less and less clear. What happened to our leadership strengths and our intention for good outcomes? Through this incident, I learned valuable lessons in leadership, particularly among women.
Within our leadership team on this [...]