Category Archives: Strengths

What’s the most satisfied city?

By Rob Fletcher | Published: May 9, 2012
The percent of U.S. workers who are satisfied with their jobs is 64%. The following five cities scored higher than that. Which one scored the highest at 75% satisfaction? Here are the five: Austin Portland, Oregon Chicago Houston Denver But first, before we get to the answer, what an interesting statistic! The idea that 64% of workers describe themselves as satisfied [...]
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George Gershwin and Refining Your Passion

By Rob Fletcher | Published: April 27, 2012
Passion is with us from childhood. We’re born with a unique set of preferences and interests that are ours alone, no-one else’s. If we’re lucky, we are able to identify them early and persist in putting them into play. In 1914 George Gershwin left high school at fifteen (against the wishes of his mother, who [...]
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More than bluegrass banjo, a pretty and welcome sound: RIP Earl Scruggs

By Rob Fletcher | Published: March 30, 2012
The father of bluegrass banjo, Earl Scruggs, died March 28. I hear his influence in most of the bluegrass banjo players today, and in most bluegrass music in general. When he first played on the Grand Ole Opry in 1945 with Bill Monroe their speed and technical mastery blew people away and started a musical revolution. [...]
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Ever since I was five I knew I wanted to sing: Shelby Lynne and Living From Your Strengths

By Rob Fletcher | Published: March 28, 2012
I recently saw Shelby Lynne perform – her album I Am Shelby Lynne is one of my top ten most played albums. During the concert she said, “ever since I was five, I knew I wanted to sing. I drove everyone crazy. I wanted to get to Nashville! (Shelby grew up in southern Alabama). Then [...]
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Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks on the work you were born to do

By Rob Fletcher | Published: March 6, 2012
Three of us at Quixote Consulting – myself, Laura and Rufus – recently read the Pulitzer Prize winning book March by Geraldine Brooks, part of a community book reading event here in western Massachusetts. This week I’d like to share some quotes from the book that I found to be particularly poignant. “I went to my [...]
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“You find what is exposed”: Dustin Hoffman on the Graduate, the least reliable instrument, and his one wish

By Rob Fletcher | Published: March 5, 2012
The New York Times has a great article on the actor Dustin Hoffman. He’s 71 now! Here are some of his quotes that moved me: Knowing Your Strengths Even When Others Don’t “It was the switch that turned me from off to on,” he says (about The Graduate). “Before that part, I had been a mainly unemployed [...]
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“You Can’t Always Get What You Want…(A Music of Teams Music Team Building Post)

By Rob Fletcher | Published: January 16, 2012
…but if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need.” – Rolling Stones The other day the Rolling Stones’ song “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” came on the radio. Like most popular Rolling Stones songs, I’ve probably heard this well over a hundred times – never intentionally, just part of [...]
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More Rhythm Means More You (A Music of Teams Music Team Building Post)

By Rob Fletcher | Published: January 6, 2012
Shining your attention on the concept of rhythm means making a change. Most of us don’t do this on a daily basis. Most change initiatives fail, but I believe in this one’s possibility for success for both me and you. Here’s the difference: New Years resolutions and change initiatives often miss the mark by asking [...]
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Charles Brown and a second chance at passion

By Rob Fletcher | Published: November 29, 2011
Charles Brown was one of the most famous R & B/blues singer/pianists of the 1940s and early 1950s. He wrote ‘Driftin’ Blues’, which was on the Billboard charts for half a year, and had a string of other hits. He’s also responsible for two Christmas classics – ‘Merry Christmas Baby’ and ‘Please Come Home For [...]
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Cannonball Adderley and passion vs. what you do well

By Rob Fletcher | Published: November 28, 2011
The great alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley started out his music career playing in Dizzy Gillespie’s band, among others, when he was 21. Meanwhile, he was also going to college to become a teacher. As soon as he graduated, he began teaching high school and playing music on the side, using his school vacation time to [...]
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