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Monthly Archives: July 2011
“What is it about a great teacher?” – Bill Gates asks the right question
Bill Gates runs the U.S.’s richest foundation. His focus is education and so far he’s spent $5 billion on it. The result so far? Not so great. So, he’s shifting his focus into one of his strengths – research. Here is part of a recent Wall Street Journal interview: “I believe in innovation and that the way [...]
Posted in Happiness, Positive Psychology, Purpose, Strengths Tagged Bill Gates, Bill Gates interview, Bill Gates Wall Street Journal interview, innovation, Positive Psychology, research, Strengths, talents, Wall Street Journal Comments closed
A Visit from the Wild Life
This morning while I was doing yoga outside before the heat hit, there was a flurry of activity among the small songbirds and an accipiter hawk landed on the rock behind the house, apparently missing its prey. An accipiter hawk is a woodland hawk – smaller than the classic soaring red-tail, with shorter wings and [...]
Posted in Happiness, Positive Psychology, Purpose Tagged accipiter hawk, black bear, grey fox, Purpose Comments closed
Listening to the Dissonance – Pat Metheny plays Ornette Coleman
“Let Your Life Speak” – Parker Palmer I saw jazz guitarist Pat Metheny’ perform recently in a beautiful old theater in Great Barrington, MA. It was his Orchestration tour [link to my blog post about it] so it was just him on stage with a huge wall of percussion behind him, all ready to be [...]
Posted in Music, Training Tagged Bright Size Life, Broadway Blues, Conflict Quest, dissonance, Orchestrion, Ornette Coleman, Pat Metheny, Quixote Consulting, True Communication Comments closed
“What’s right in my life?”
How could you know if you don’t ask that question? ”What’s wrong?” is the question that comes easily to our lips. It’s an old question and if we want a fresh perspective, we need a fresh question. Ask what’s right…and notice your response honestly. What beauty is alive in your life? There’s something amazing rising [...]
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Just play like you play” – T Bone Burnett’s advice to Alison Krauss
Interviewer: What draws you to T Bone? Alison Krauss: His facility for encouragement. He truly believes in the players there with him. He’s all about the personalities of the people who are playing and singing, and about establishing a mood. He casts the recordings based on very specific personality traits. During one song Robert, the [...]
Posted in Passion, Play, Strengths Tagged Alison Krauss, Just play like you play, Raising Sand, Robert Plant, T Bone Burnett Comments closed
It’s all about communicating a feeling: Allison Krauss on recording with Robert Plant
“I’ve always believed I could get a better vocal by re-singing it, or manufacturing a vocal by putting together multiple takes. But I was wrong. When you sing an entire song in a single pass, you capture something that can’t be repeated. It’s all about communicating a feeling.” – Allison Krauss, on recording the Grammy-winning [...]
Posted in Passion, Training Tagged Allison Krauss, effective influencing, Influence, Influence training, Influence: The Power of Persuasion, Influencing skills, Raising Sand, Robert Plant Comments closed
What if we can relax now?
“It’s alright, we can relax now. We don’t need to rush anymore.” – a father to the rest of his family in the rental car shuttle bus in Ft Lauderdale, FL There are teachers everywhere – he was mine that day. What if what he said is really true, for me and for you? What [...]
Posted in Happiness Tagged Resiliency, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success Comments closed
Teams Joining Forces during WWII – The Home Front
The following is from Remembrance: A Tribute to America’s Veterans, a book I co-wrote with my father Robert A. Fletcher. The poster is famous: Rosie the Riveter in coveralls and red handkerchief, rolling her sleeves up and declaring, “We can do it!” America agreed, and the “home front” produced an astounding amount of war material [...]
Posted in Purpose, Team Building Tagged Charitable team building, Charity Team Building, csr team building, Helping Military Families, Home Front, Joining Forces, military care packages, military family statistics, military team building, military team building activities, military team building exercises, military team building games, Philanthropic Team Building, Quixote Consulting, Remembrance, Remembrance: A Tribute to America's Veterans, Rob Fletcher, Robert A. Fletcher, Rosie the Riveter, soldier care packages, WW II Comments closed
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