by tgale | Aug 20, 2012 | Blog, Leadership Development, Personal Development
If two wrongs don’t make a right, but four rights put you back where you started … Then take a left to avoid ending up where you have already been. Greg Spears, from Ken Spears Construction in Illinois, was out running on Saturday and posted this...
by tgale | Aug 6, 2012 | Personal Development
“For 20 years I’ve been looking for how to add balance to the workplace, and that gave me the idea for the experiment” says David Levy, computer scientist and technology professor at the University of Washington. A student of Zen for 20 years, he...
by tgale | Jul 30, 2012 | Blog, Leadership Development, Monday Morning Wake Up Tips, Personal Development
INC Magazine recently interviewed Bryan Clay, the 2008 Beijing Gold medalist in the Men’s Decathlon, a grueling two-day contest in which athletes compete in 10 track and field events. Clay returns to the 2012 Olympics and describes his preparations for this year’s...
by tgale | Jul 23, 2012 | Blog, Leadership Development, Monday Morning Wake Up Tips, Personal Development, Process Improvement
Stephen Covey, the author of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and other books, passed away last week. I, Theresa, would like to take a few minutes to share the “best” of Stephen Covey, from my perspective. A day doesn’t go by when I don’t use one of his...
by tgale | Jul 9, 2012 | Blog, Leadership Development, Monday Morning Wake Up Tips, Personal Development
In a recent blog for Harvard Business Review, Ram Charan, author of The Leadership Pipeline, writes about The Discipline of Listening. He says “for leaders, listening is a central competence for success.” In his work with business leaders he says that 360-degree...
by tgale | Jun 18, 2012 | Blog, Leadership Development, Monday Morning Wake Up Tips, Personal Development
In his book, The Leadership Dojo: Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader, by Richard Strozzi-Heckler, he states “If we want to introduce new leadership behaviors in our lives, it is necessary to practice. We also know that to achieve mastery it is...